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STARNOS: 

QUOTATIONS FROM THE INSPIRED WRITINGS 

OF 

ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS, 

Seer of the Harmonial Philosophy. 



SELECTED AND EDITED 

By Della E. DAVIS, M.D. 



"We visited the summit of Starnos, — the Mount of 
Light, — south of the beautiful Lake Mornia. — Penetralia, 
p. 261. 



BOSTON: 

COLBY & RICH, PUBLISHERS 

9 Bos worth Street, 

1891. 







Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by 

DELLA E. DAYIS, 
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Many years ago it was my good fortune to 
become acquainted with the writings of Andrew 
Jackson Davis on the Spiritual Philosophy, or 
Harmonial Philosophy, — a title that is better 
known and associated with the author's name 
and works, by those who read and know them. 
To the persons and powers which prevailed, and 
were the means of introducing me to a knowl- 
edge and perception of their mission and great 
value to the world, I can never cease to feel the 
most profound gratitude. The principles and 
teachings embodied in these writings were to 
me, as I believe they have been to many others, 
and what they cannot fail to prove to all who 
honestly and faithfully seek for light through 
them, a Savior who opened to my view a new 
heaven and a new earth, — an unfailing Fountain 
full of "jets of new meaning. " 



4 INTRODUCTION. 

Although reared from early youth with an 
atheistic view of life, with its accompanying 
unbelief in any personal responsibility regard- 
ing the soul's future, yet I also inherited an 
ardent admiration for the true and the beautiful. 
I have naturally a profound reverence and love 
for the sublime and wonderful in all the mani- 
festations of nature. My spirit, therefore, was 
not only ready but felt eager to break through 
the encrusting materialism, and to recognize 
more perfectly the inner meanings and import 
of life. I needed some thing or some one who 
might show me the true and sure way out from 
the night of mental errors, and the gloom of 
ignorance, into the full and blessed light of day. 

Modern Spiritualism" came to me as a great joy, 
assisting me over many rough and barren places 
in my mental journeyings. It proved to me the 
fact of a continued individual life beyond this 
body-bound earthly existence; that the event 
termed death is in reality a birth into a higher 
and better conditioned life ; and that those who 
pass beyond this portal can and do return to 
earth, and with signs and messages give proof 
of their identity and love. But the Harmonial 
Philosophy, which embodies all that is good and 



INTRODUCTION. 5 

true in all isms, was to me a still greater bless- 
ing. It held aloft for me the Beacon Torch 
which guided me out of all my former skepti- 
cism into the perfect faith, and imparted an ever 
growing knowledge of the principles underlying 
and governing the methods and processes of 
all existence. Amid the storms of severe and 
almost engulfing personal experiences; when 
the waters of life were made bitter as gall with 
mental conflicts and doubts; "through dark 
nights of sorrow mid anguish and tears " ; when 
confidence in human and divine love grew weak 
and feeble because of ignorance; when hope 
well nigh hid its face, and faith most needed a 
savior; then the light of the Harmonial Phi- 
losophy illumined the gloom and desolation 
with revealings of God's eternal justice, love, 
and wisdom, working always for the redemption 
and ultimate perfection of all. 

I could now see that life's disciplines were the 
chisels in the hands of a Divine Artist, who was 
carving from the rock of ages beautiful forms 
and fashioning them in his own likeness and im- 
age ; and that we as human beings can, by living 
purely and healthfully, soonest comprehend and 
realize his secret intentions, — the evolution and 



b INTRODUCTION. 

establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven in the 
human heart. Many years ago, before any per- 
sonal acquaintance with Mr. Davis, I was wont 
to call myself a disciple of the "Harmonial Phi- 
losophy," which term to many was an unknown 
quantity without any significance. When read- 
ing and studying its volumes I often met with 
passages which to me embodied so much of wis- 
dom and practical worth that I would be in- 
spired with the wish and hope that some person 
might be moved to select from out of the many 
a sufficient number of paragraphs to make a 
convenient and inexpensive book, so that any- 
one not having access to the writings on these 
spiritual themes might read the inspired pas- 
sages. 

One day, "in the gloaming," before the even- 
ing lamp was lighted, and while reclining for a 
little rest and meditation, I received an impres- 
sion, which was imperative, that I was the 
person to commence and accomplish this com- 
pilation. Receiving the approval and encour- 
agement of the author, I almost immediately 
set to work to make selections and to prepare 
them for publication. The result is this little 
volume, Starnos, — my rosary of pearls as I 



INTRODUCTION. 7 

call it, — which is tenderly and affectionately ex- 
tended to the world, with the heart prayer that 
its contents may convey to all who read it the 
light and solace which every mind and heart 
constantly needs. It has certainly been a labor 
of love on my part, and if any hungering soul 
can from its pages find the true comforter, then 
my reward will be sure, and soul satisfying. 

Greetings to all ! with the love and blessing 
of the author and compiler. 

Boston, Mass., 1891. 



STAKNOS. 



ARABULA. 

Arabula is the perfect, the eternal, love- 
light and light-love of the universe ; and when 
it dwelleth in our superior consciousness, we 
not only love it without fear, but also love 
tenderly all humanity, and even the least and 
lowest things of the earth, and the earth 
itself, and likewise all things in the starry 
heavens, with a love that is unutterable, 
mysterious, sublime, and blossoming with 
happiness. — Arabula, p. 110. 



10 STARNOS. 

AUTHOKITY. 

The authority of the Harmonial Philos- 
ophy is Truth ; it is not based upon the 
Revelations of " Davis," but upon the Reve- 
lations of Nature. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 375. 

Nature, the great exponent of God; and 
Reason, the great exponent of Nature, — these 
are the supreme Authority upon all things 
which pertain to man and his Maker. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 3, p. 390. 

ASPIRATION. 

To be like heaven let us aspire to heaven. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 180. 

Aspiration is the true basis of every true 
idea concerning goodness, greatness, and 
Deity.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 154. 

Aspiration humanizes, spiritualizes, and 
nobly defines every modification and tendency 
of that internal promethean fire which ever 
burns in the soul. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 154. 



STARNOS. 11 

ATMOSPHERES. 

There is a spiritual atmosphere within the 
material atmosphere. The soul feeds on the 
one, the body upon the other, until, by a refin- 
ing process, they blend into one, whereby the 
spirit is made to increase in substance. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 4, p. 54. 

ASSOCIATION. 

Particles of matter are associated accord- 
ing to their shape, their size, and their tem- 
perament. . . . One shape and temperament 
of atoms, for example, will be attracted only 
to granite ; another to quartz ; another to 
limestone ; another to iron, or silver, or cop- 
per, or gold ; . . . another to animals ; an- 
other to the human form ; another to the 
sun ; . . . another to trees ; another to the 
human soul, — all, in accordance with the 
degree of the harmony of shape, size, and 
temperament (or attractions) of the compos- 
ing atoms. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 277. 



12 STABNOS. 

ANGELS. 

As the Goddess of music takes down her 
lute, touches its silver chords, and sets the 
summer melodies of nature to words ; so an 
angel from the Spirit Land comes to us in 
our profoundest slumber and gently awakens 
our highest faculties to the finest thought and 
serenest contemplation. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 317. 

ATTRACTION. 

Attraction is that law which associates and 
consociates, which joins and conjoins, atoms 
with life, life with organization, organization 
with intelligence. Therefore, this attraction 
is the love-law of all organization ; the same 
in the physical world as in the spiritual. . . . 
The coming together of atoms conjugally 
elected, — that is, according to their inherent 
relations and essential affinities, — makes the 
organal phenomena of field and forest, of sea 
and sky.— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 277. 



STARNOS. 13 

ARISTOCRACIES. 

One-third of the earth's population are 
bound by the hand of disease, merely because 
they are uneducated, inferiorly conditioned, 
and unjustly treated by the exclusiveness of 
classes and aristocracies. — Nat. Div. Rev., 
p. 698. 

ACHIEVEMENTS. 

The greatest of achievements and the holi- 
est of demonstrations is the actual passage 
of private love-messages to and fro between 
this rock-bound stormy shore and that vernal 
margin just beyond the floating clouds. — His. 
and Phil, of Evil, p. 46. 

APPROBATION. 

Speak boldly and fearlessly your earnest 
and serious convictions, and Nature will smile 
upon you with her divine approbations ; the 
angels will rejoice, and the Divine Mind will 
bless your mind with celestial knowledge. — 
Nat. Div. Rev., p. 714. 



14 STAENOS. 

ALLEGIANCE. 

Perfect righteousness in one's allegiance 
and conduct to whatsoever is good, true, 
divine, and beautiful — to the pure, just, lov- 
ing, wise, and merciful — is a principle of the 
spirit— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 83. 

AGENTS. 

Unseen powers within the spirit are certain 
to be silently aided in the performance of 
good deeds by vigilant agents of mercy who 
daily move through the atmosphere of the 
world upon the silvery wings of love. — Tem- 
ple, p. 361. 

ADVANCEMENT. 

When the soul is sufficiently advanced in 
strength, it discards its cradle, — it steps boldly 
from the threshold of the tabernacle in which 
it was born, — and treads the interminable 
paths of infinitude like an angel of God. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 3, p. 64. 



STARNOS. 15 

ANGER. 

Impatient, angry tones never did the heart 
good, but plenty of evil. — Fountain, p. 146. 

AFFECTION. 

Love is the source of quantity in a person. 
There is great fullness of life where there 
is great affection, which flows out of loye's 
fountain. — Heavenly Home, p. 25. 

ATTRACTION. 

Noble sentiments and profound feelings of 
human nature attract appreciable influences 
from the invisible sphere whence emanates 
" every good and perfect gift." — Memoranda, 
p. 31. 

ARGUMENT. 

Argument is the kitchen work of the mind. 
Wisdom never argues; it states principles, 
and gives methods. It believes that nothing 
can be taught; everything can be developed. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 38. 



16 STABNOS. 

AFFECTION. 

Rightly seen, everything in nature is a 
wise and special expression of divine affection. 

— Fountain, p. 21. 

ABSTINENCE. 

If you cannot sleep well, abstain from food 
and warm drink subsequent to four o'clock in 
the afternoon. — Inner Life, p. 383. 

AFFLICTION. 

There is almost always a subduing, refin- 
ing, and spiritualizing influence emanating 
from the seeming evils of physical affliction. 

— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 145. 

AFFECTION. 

Every private affection throws out an at- 
mosphere. Whatever your predominating 
love may be, it emits an atmosphere which 
winds itself about your person. — Death and 
After Life, p. 134. 



STARNOS. 17 

ASSOCIATION. 

Everything has its own peculiar atmos- 
phere, and consequently its specific and neces- 
sary association. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 147. 

ASPIRATIONS. 

The eternal spirit of self -preservation throbs 
mightily and supremely at the very heart of 
all individual aspiration. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 396. 

AMBITION. 

A high, pure purpose, be it remembered, 
is possible only to spirit. Ambition is earthly ; 
aspiration is spiritual. — Phil. Spiritual Inter- 
course, p. 353. 

ATTRACTION. 

Attraction is that principle of Love which 
perpetually fills and harmoniously beats in, 
and from, the two united hearts and heads of 
Father God and Mother Nature. — Temple, 
p. 108. 



18 STARNOS. 

ACTIVITIES. 

Activity is the wealth of the world, and 
the use and destiny of man. — Nat. Div. He v., 
p. 690. 

AUTHORITY. 

No mind ever received truth until it 
divested itself of pride, arrogance, and attach- 
ment to human Authority. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, 
p. 134. 

ANTIQUITY. 

Antiquity is a poor authority, being char- 
acteristically shrouded in the winding-sheet 
of error, superstition, and misapprehensions 
of the commonest facts. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 134. 

ATMOSPHERES. 

Every human soul is surrounded with an 
atmosphere, more or less pure and influential. 
This atmosphere is an emanation from the 
individual, just as flowers exhale their fra- 
grance.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 286. 



STAKTSTOS. 19 

ANNIHILATION. 

There is nothing capable of annihilation 
in all the realms of Infinitude. — Penetralia, 
p. 115. 

ARABULA. 

The sensibilities and sentiments and aspi- 
rations and apprehensions of the superior 
powers of mind are the voices of Arabula. — 
Arabula, p. 371. 

APPLAUSE. 

If you are good, if you are great, the secret 
will be found out. Do not mourn a moment 
over the blindness and non-appreciation of 
your fellowmen. — Beyond the Valley, p. 380. 

ARBITRATION. 

In any troubles and misunderstandings 
which you may experience as arising from 
your relations with others, do not forget the 
Friendly Board of Arbitration, — Love, Sin- 
cerity, Truth! — Beyond the Valley, p. 141. 



20 STAENOS. 

ANGELS. 

Justice, honor, truth, love, reverence, are 
the " holy angels" that guard the inner tem- 
ple.— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 228. 

AFFINITIES. 

The mind's internal affinities are inter- 
cohesive, and stronger than all extrinsic at- 
tractions. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 326. 

ART. 

Art refines and spiritualizes the feelings, 
and opens the interior senses to the more 
glorious perception and appreciation of nat- 
ure's beauties. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 87. 

ANALYSIS. 

Self-analysis is indispensable to spiritual 
progress. . . . Self-discipline, self-confession 
of faults, and self-harmonization will flow out 
of the analysis, as streams flow from the foun- 
tain.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 177. 



STARNOS. 21 

AIMS. 

Aim for Peace and Justice; think of a 
better world that changes not. — Inner Life, 
p. 148. 

ARMOR. 

That mind that loves truth more than any 
other thing is clothed in the armor of Heaven. 
— Inner Life, p. 42. 

ABUSES. 

Abuses and perversions creep into every 
exalted sphere of human interest; and the 
celestial flower-like loveliness and exquisite 
delicacy of spiritual intercourse cannot claim 
exemption. — Temple, p. 244. 



22 STAKNOS. 



BEAUTY. 

A body full of virtuous health — of har- 
mony deserved — is a form of holy beauty. — 
Harbinger of Health, p. 34. 

BOOKS. 
We are all authors. We write books. 
Every day opens a fresh leaf in some heart, 
on which we trace some line of thought, — 
make some impression theron which can never 
fade away. — Har. Man., p. 155. 

BIRTH. 

To be born, to come into the world, to 
exist, to grow, to attain the full stature, and 
live forever, — this is indeed sacred, wonder- 
ful, awful, attractive, beautiful. — Gen. and 
Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 61. 



STARNOS. 23 

BONDAGE. 

Strive by will-power and inward growth to 
live less in bondage to circumstances. — Hist, 
and Phil, of Evil, p. 220. 

BEAUTY. 

Beauty is the prophecy of the perfection 
which is in store for each in the growth of 
time. — Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 84. 

BIGOTRY. 

Creeds cannot withstand the pulverizing 
advancement of positive science. Bigotry 
cannot set back the on-rolling tides of univer- 
sal Brotherhood. — Fountain, p. 74. 

BLESSINGS. 

Secure ye first the kingdom of harmony in 
material things, — in diet, activities, dress, etc., 
— then all the innumerable blessings of virtue 
and progress shall be added. — Answers to 
Questions, p. 39. 



24 STARNOS. 

BLESSINGS. 

Looking afar for a blessing, instead of just 
at your feet, where the richest diamond lies 
hidden in the coarse sand, illustrates the dif- 
ference between a fool and a philosopher. — 
Our Heavenly Home, p. 254. 

BEAUTY. 

Beauty is a condition, but it can only be 
recognized and appreciated by a correspond- 
ing internal state or attribute in the individual. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 152. 

When Nature is bathed in the glowing and 
glorious emanations from the source of all 
light and life, — and when every tree, every 
bird, and every flower, is drinking in and 
breathing forth the soft luxuriance of spirit- 
ual hues, — then the mind cannot but perceive 
and realize something of the loveliness and 
magnificence of the Second Sphere to which 
all mankind are journeying. — Gt. Har. Vol. 
1, p. 280. 



STARNOS. 25 

BROTHERHOOD. 

That mind which is pure, aud properly 
educated in the ways of wisdom, can only 
recognize mankind as a Brotherhood. — Nat. 
Div. Rev., p. 575. 

BEAUTY. 

Fraternal love is the companion, the con- 
jugal companion, of the attribute of Beauty. 
This love inspires, and Beauty is her mani- 
festation.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 153. 

BOOKS. 

Forest trees full of singing birds are the 
chapters of good books with their white leaves. 
— Beyond the Valley, p. 279. 

A book is your best friend when it compels 
you to think, disenthralls your reason, enkin- 
dles your hopes, vivifies your imagination, 
dispels the darkness of materialism, and makes 
easier all the burdens of your daily life. — 
Beyond the Valley, p. 279. 



26 STAKNOS. 

BLESSINGS. 

All things are blessings only as they come 
and go when needed. — Penetralia, p. 458. 

BENEFITS. 

Whatever increases the sum of human 
knowledge, and augments the joys of the 
human soul, is beneficial to the world. — Pen- 
etralia, p. 328. 

BEATITUDES. 

The power to rise up into the Divine beati- 
tudes arises from the just and generous per- 
formances of deeds of kindness, of mercy, of 
justice, of love. — Memoranda, p. 314. 

BODY. 

The human body was made to develop the 
human spirit. — Gt. Har. Yol. 1, p. 189. 

The body is the mold into which the 
" elixir of immortality " is run. — Inner Life, 
p. 406. 



STABJsros. 27 

BKOTHERHOOD. 

The soul desires fellowship with its kind. 
Fraternal affection inspires the desire for 
universal association. Its magic word is 
" Brotherhood." ... In its natural state of 
action it responds heartily to the golden rule 
or gospel synopsis, — love to man; love to 
God.— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 78. 

BELIEF. 

Believe not a truth because it was believed 
and taught before you lived, but because it is 
truth, leading the mind onward and upward 
to higher spheres of grandeur and beauty. — 
Nat. Div. Rev., p. 433. 

Any belief that has a tendency to destroy 
the natural benevolence of a noble mind, or 
to restrict its movements and circumscribe its 
sympathies and affections, ... is indeed not 
worthy of the most contracted place in the hu- 
man affections, or among the approved tenets 
of the judgment. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 491. 



28 STARNOS. 

BABYHOOD. 

The babyhood of the whole human race, 
like the infant state of the individual man, is 
characterized by physical weakness and men- 
tal simplicity. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, p. 13. 



CREATION. 

Creation is a beautiful sermon, terminating 
with a grand, glowing, glorious conclusion, — 
the human Soul. — Inner Life, p. 66. 

CHARACTER. 

The mind and its affections grow to resem- 
ble in shape and feeling that upon which they 
constantly feed ; and from the structure and 
affections of the mind we derive and establish 
"character." — Fountain, p. 36. 



STARNOS. 29 

CONSCIENCE. 

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, 
and Conscience is the Divinity that rules 
therein. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 156. 

CAPABILITIES. 

The Spirit is capable, by its power, of sub- 
duing itself and the various creations beneath 
it in nature. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 152. 

CHARITY. 

Charity is fraternal justice. . . . No man 
is justified in returning evil for evil, but good 
only under all circumstances and to all hu- 
manity. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 96. 

CULTIVATION. 

When man becomes highly cultivated in 
his affections and intellect, all elements will 
be invested with a diviner meaning, even to 
the recognition of the Supreme Being in their 
silvery depths.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 238. 



30 STARNOS. 

CHARACTER. 

Perfection and truthfulness of character are 
the secret intentions of Nature. — Gt. Har. 
Yol. 5, p. 15. 

CIRCUMSTANCES. 

Influences and circumstances which sway 
human feeling and modify judgment, are but 
the wire-pullings and mathematical calcula- 
tions of positive prescience. — Gt. Har. Vol. 
5, p. 152. 

CULTURE. 

Happiness is the end of all human desire 
and endeavor, and spiritual culture is the 
agency by which it may be obtained. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 2, p. 174. 

The law and method of spiritual culture 
require the following : Be contented ivith the 
Past, and with all it has brought you. Be 
thankful for the Present, and for all you have. 
Be patient for the Future, and for all it prom- 
ises to bring you. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 174. 



STARNOS. 31 

CAUSES. 

God is the cause — Nature is the effect — 
Man is the ultimate. — Inner Life, p. 53. 

CONSTITUTION. 

The constitution of the human spirit pro- 
hibits the possibility of its loving and cherish- 
ing unqualified error. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, 
p. 240. 

CIRCUMSTANCES. 

A true Harmonial Philosopher — a real, 
spiritual, living soul — can rise up and live a 
higher life in the midst of his circumstances. 
— Thoughts Concerning Religion, p. 177. 

CONSOLATION. 

Remember in your darkest hours that there 
are those in the bending skies that love you ! 
Strive to do well then, to be a true Beautiful 
Woman, to be a pure Harmonial Man ; and 
the higher worlds will baptize you in its sweet 
and living waters. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 181. 



32 STAKNOS. 

COMMANDMENT. 

Under all circumstances keep an even mind. 
— Magic Staff, p. 263. 

CORRECTNESS. 

Correct speaking, like good dancing, comes 
by frequent practice under the guidance of 
wise instructors. — Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 112. 

CIRCULATION. 

In the human body there is a vitalic circu- 
lation ; so is there a circulation of vital forces 
between the spiritual world and the several 
planets. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 414. 

COMMUNION. 

Opening of the interior feeling to a full and 
free communion with eternal principles is the 
only door, swinging on golden hinges, which 
admits the traveler to the immediate presence 
of the infinite Father and Mother. — Heavenly 
Home, p. 21. 



STARNOS. 33 

CHEERFULNESS. 

To be cheerfully reconciled to the unavoid- 
able, to be satisfied with the best you can be 
and do, is wise and beautiful. — Eth. of Conj. 
Love, p. 126. 

CONDITIONS. 

When man shall convert bad physical and 
social conditions into good and healthy in- 
fluences, the moral wilderness will blossom 
as the rose, and the lion and lamb of the in- 
terior man will lie down together in peace. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 26. 

CHARACTER. 

The harmonial formation of character — 
in harmony with the principles of Universal 
Love and Distributive Justice — is the only 
security against temporal unhappiness and 
future disturbances. . . . Harmony of char- 
acter and loveliness of disposition unfold 
gradually from unwavering efforts to acquire 
them. — Penetralia, p. 290. 



34 STARNOS. 

CHEERFULNESS. 

Cheerfulness is an all-healing medicine pre- 
pared in the laboratory of the gods. — Heav- 
enly Home, p. 56. 

CONTEMPLATION. 

There is nothing too free, too stupendous, 
too magnificent, or too holy, for human con- 
templation. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 255. 

CIRCUMSTANCES. 

As is the moistened clay in the hands of 
the potter, so is individual man in the wheel 
of the most positive circumstances. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 247. 

CAUSES. 

It is a self-evident proposition that all ex- 
ternal effects must spring from invisible causes. 
... In everything the ideal begets the actual ; 
the invisible, the visible ; the principle, the 
outward manifestation. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 56. 



STARNOS. 35 

CRITICISM. 

Healthy criticism is the best mental ferti- 
lizer because it plows up the soil of thought 
and prepares it for the best seed-grains of 
truth. — Answers to Questions, p. 249. 

CORRESPONDENCE. 

Between inward bodies and principles there 
is invariably a well-defined outward corre- 
spondence. . . . The objective violet imparts 
to the mental canvas a likeness of its own 
image. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 165. 

CONTEMPLATION. 

It is very spiritualizing to one's superior 
sensibilities, and love of beauty and harmony, 
to ascend some enchanting elevation above 
the highest tree-tops, and from that lofty 
solitude contemplate and absorb the impres- 
sions imparted by the soft, hazy, indefiniteness 
of a vastly extended landscape. — Heavenly 
Home, p. 100. 



36 STARNOS. 

CHURCHES. 

The free church of the future will be the 
Sanctuary of Reason, — dispensing spiritual 
and natural Truths to a free and happy audi- 
ence. — His. and Phil, of Evil, p. 102. 

COMMANDMENTS. 

If you wish to be truly and steadfastly 
loved, see to it that you do not deform your 
spiritual nature. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 222. 

Prepare yourselves to love one another. . . . 
Become lovable. Let each become lovely 
as possible. . . . Love is an attribute, spon- 
taneous, like genius, obeying no laws save its 
own.— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 221. 

Let your minds be calm ; put confidence in 
the divine laws of your being ; obey them 
religiously ; and youth and beauty will glow 
from every face, — and, without trying, you 
will " love one another."— Gt, Har, Vol, 4, 

p. m 



STARNOS. 37 

CONSOLATION. 

True and lasting consolation — also true 
and abiding happiness — comes from the daily 
doing of right, which is your duty. This is 
the everlasting guide to peace. — Beyond the 
Valley, p. 391. 

COMPENSATIONS. 

Pleasure, happiness, joy, blessedness, bliss, 
— these spiritual sensations will come as com- 
pensations for duty done, for work performed, 
for loyalty to the omnipresent spirit of the 
ever-wise, ever-loving Arabula. — Beyond the 
Valley, p. 20. 

CHEERFULNESS. 

Never be depressed ; but be cheerful — be 
joyful — be exceedingly glad — even though 
death is knocking at your door — for there is 
nothing to hate, to shun, to fear, or to deplore, 
in any department of Nature, or in the wide 
sanctuary of the Living, Divine Mind. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, p. 442. 



38 STARNOS. 

COUNTERPARTS. 
Deity and Nature are counterparts ; they 
are husband and wife, father and mother, wis- 
dom and love. — Thoughts on Religion, p. 91. 

CONSTELLATIONS. 

The stellar constellations are chords in the 
harp upon which Mother Nature sounds the 
music of her everlasting love of God. — Be- 
yond the Valley, p. 320. 

CHARACTER. 

The higher the development of character 
the more impregnable does the individual be- 
come to the causes and afflictions of evil. — 
Answers to Questions, p. 188. 

CLEANLINESS. 

There is something more than beauty of 
form, face, and manners ; that something is 
personal purity and cleanliness. — Eth. of 
Conj. Love, p. 84. 



STARNOS. 39 

CHARACTER. 

Go deep into human character, and you 
will find a diamond inheritance, pure and im- 
perishable. — Penetralia, p. 404. 

CONSCIOUSNESS. 

Consciousness is irresistable, absolute, irre- 
versible, and beyond controversy. It is that 
which you accept without question. You 
live in it because it is yourself. — Answers to 
Questions, p. 17. 

CONVENTIONS. 

Conventions, conducted with magnanimity 
and virtue of purpose, will accomplish much 
good towards the unfolding of universal prin- 
ciples. — Thoughts on Religion, p. 21. 

Conventions are useful only as ploughs are 
good for the soil, — they turn up new ground, 
break away poisonous weeds, and demolish 
old stumps, for the subsequent planting of 
good seed. — Thoughts on Religion, p. 15. 



40 STAKNOS. 

COURAGE. 

We need more independence of soul, — not 
impudence or arrogance, but strength enough, 
courage enough, to do the bidding of our in- 
stincts, and rebuke the wrong which timidity 
generates. — Harmonial Man, p. 148. 

COMPASSION. 

It is good to feel that every soul contains 
the same elements of energy and intellect. 
Such a conviction will inspire us with a philo- 
sophical compassion for every individual 
whose mind is unfortunately developed. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 3, p. 71. 

CONFESSION. 

The beautiful human heart, the seat and 
symbol of the affections, cannot safely conceal 
its sorrows. Open confession to some worthy 
person, notwithstanding the immediate pain 
and mortification, is often a perfect prevention 
of insanity. — Temple, p. 389. 



STAENOS. 41 

CONSOLATION. 

Consolation, which can save mankind, 
comes over the paths of knowledge. — Eth. 
of Conj. Love, p. 142. 

COMMUNION. 

You who would learn the truth should go 
into the most secret chamber of your own 
souls. The spirit of God lives there. There 
you should go to pray, to sing, to commune 
with your guardian spirits. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 44. 

CHARITY. 

In the steady discharge of her mission, 
Charity is tender, gentle, unpretending, and 
strong.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 107. 

If charity is properly directed, and unre- 
strained while walking in the holy avenues of 
Wisdom, her deeds will unfold like heavenly 
violets in the garden of the Soul, and spread 
the fragrance of happiness wherever she 
treads.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 105. 



42 STARNOS. 

CULTIVATION. 

The mind is capable of growth and endless 
progression. It can be cultivated like a 
flower, until its immortal fragrance shall be 
sweet, and pure, and spiritual. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 2, p. 131. 

CONTEMPLATION. 

Universal love inspires the individual with 
enlarged sympathies ; warms the intellect in- 
to unquenchable thirstings after boundless 
knowledge ; urges the imagination to the con- 
templation of interior and infinite things. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 99. 

COMMUNICATIONS. 

The notes of music which come through 
spiritual communications — from the lofty 
summits of heavenly inspiration — enable us 
to catch but imperfect glimpses of the " good 
time " when the earth shall ripen and blos- 
som as the rose. — Free Thoughts on Relig- 
ion, p. 123. 



STARKOS. 43 

CALMNESS. 

If you desire calmness in the midst of a 
storm, then study the wonders of the inner 
universe ; learn the laws by which it is con- 
trolled. You are yourselves universes in 
miniature. — Gt. Har. Yol. 3, p. 219. 

CHARACTER. 

Character is the way, the fashion, the man- 
ner, the expression, the fulcrum, as well as 
the lever, by and through which the soul an- 
nounceth and declareth itself to the external 
world. — Penetralia, p. 399. 

CONVICTIONS. 

Look within for that principle which causes 
all effects in the external. When you find an 
internal conviction that you are immortal, 
which no sophistry can invalidate or disturb, 
then you have found a treasure, the beauty 
of which is greatly enhanced by spiritual mani- 
festations. — Penetralia, p. 254. 



44 STAKNOS. 

CONFIDENCE. 

Give a man confidence in himself that he 
hath an inward character, and he will forth- 
with commence the work of reform and self- 
purification. — Penetralia, p. 443. 

CHARITY. 

Charity educates and expands the percep- 
tions, and conceptions, and all other attributes 
of the soul. . . . She teaches the soul to feel 
its individuality, to acknowledge its depend- 
ence, and cultivate the spirit of a universal 
relationship. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 106. 

CONDEMNATION. 

There is nothing that can condemn evil 
but goodness. The angel of the human heart 
looks mournfully upon the wrong deeds of the 
creature man. The still small voice is for- 
ever in the presence of the transgressor ; and 
there is no escaping its noontide and mid- 
night injunctions. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 358. 



STARNOS. 45 

CREEDS. 

It is better to believe in the human soul, 
when exalted by purity of thought and har- 
moniousness of life and purpose, than in any 
creed in the wide world. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 268. 

CONFIDENCE. 

In order to have a true faith and confidence 
in the existence, wisdom, power, and love of 
the Supreme Being, the mind must interro- 
gate its own depths, and watch the mysteri- 
ous workings of its own properties and prin- 
ciples.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 374. 

CONVERSATION. 

Conversation is a powerful means of spirit- 
culture and harmony. It touches the social 
chords of sympathy, and inspires the spirit 
with new sentiments and language. It en- 
nobles the feelings, and beautifies the general 
deportment. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 178. 



46 STAKNOS. 



D. 



DEITY. 
Deity is the source of all vitality. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, p. 48. 

DISCIPLINE. 

Life is a chain of discipline. . . . There is 
not a chord in man's nature which some event 
does not strike at some time. — Inner Life, 
p. 107. 

DESTINY. 

The destiny of all men is Immortality, Hap- 
piness, and Progression. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, 
p. 41. 

Let us, O let us, unfold the beauties of the 
spirit, study its immense possessions, and im- 
prove ourselves ; and then we will know, and 
feel, and form just conceptions of our mission 
and our destiny. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 41. 



STARsros. 47 

DEVELOPMENT. 

Properly considered, the spiritual state is 
the complete development and harmonization 
of the individual. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 310. 

DEATH. 

To the convinced and enlarged understand- 
ing there is no death . . . only the most im- 
portant and delightful change in the mode of 
personal existence. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 242. 

DIVINITY. 

To the spiritually minded all realities are 
clothed in a glowing divinity ; every-day occur- 
rences are miraculous. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 106. 

When the mind is exercised upon the 
superior planes of thought, then all material 
forms are invested with an unusual signifi- 
cance, — everything has a deep and sacred 
meaning, — the external world is full of Di- 
vinity.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 21. 



48 STAHNOS. 

DEITY. 

Man is a portion of Nature, and Nature is 
ever enduring, because its soul is Deity. — 
Inner Life, p. 421. 

DEVELOPMENT. 

All belief in the High and Beautiful, in the 
Spiritual and Supreme, in Theism and Im- 
mortality, comes into practical form only by 
the soul's development. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 283. 

DUALITY. 

In all things, throughout the realms of 
mind or matter, two opposing principles rule 
and ivork the same. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 80. 

God is dual. . . . Better than the Virgin 
Mary's saintly position in the ethical temple 
is the simple announcement that God is as 
much Woman as 31an, a one-ness composed 
of two individual equal halves, Love and Wis- 
dom absolute and balanced eternally. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 5, p. 196. 



STARNOS. 49 

DESTINY. 

We should not forget that we live now to 
live again. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 40. 

DEIFICATION. 

I thank God that I am permitted to raise 
my voice against the deification of individuals, 
— against every species of idolatry and super- 
stition. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 375. 

DEATH. 

Death is but an event in our eternal life. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 159. 

Death is simply a birth into a new and 
more perfect state of existence. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 1, p. 159. 

DISCORD. 

Let no inflated mind be unjust to the body 
within which it lives and moves, for thus 
" Disease " is born, and those deeper discords 
also that shut out the holy light of eternity. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 243. 



50 STARNOS. 

DISCUSSION. 

Fear of free discussion is the strongest 
sceptre in the hand of error and despotism. — 
Harmonial Man, p. 16. 

DEMONS. 

"What are they ? Passions, appetites, and 
inversions. " The only begotten " is the prin- 
ciple of Truth. — Morning Lectures, p. 102. 

DEVELOPMENT. 

To man, the universe is great, beautiful, 
divine, and magnificent ; or it is small, chaotic, 
and unbeautiful, — just as he is individually 
organized, educated, and developed. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, p. 178. 

DEITY. 

In food, water, and air the Deity lives ; 
it is through these instrumentalities that he 
imparts many harmonizing and spiritualizing 
principles to the human constitution. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, 275. 



STARNOS. 51 

DEATH. 

Death is largely a cleansing process, and is 
the hope of the world, not its point of dark- 
ness. — Death and After Life, p. 96. 

DEVELOPMENT. 

Every thing is unfolding life and beauty, 
according to the law of progressive and eter- 
nal development. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 414. 

DESTINY. 

Nothing lives in vain, or is left to blind 
destiny ; but, otherwise, every existence is in- 
dispensible to the welfare and harmony of the 
whole. — Answers to Questions, p. 39. 

DISCORD. 

What pain, what internal convulsions, what 
tumultuous pulsations of the heart do we ex- 
perience when the harsh sounds of enmity 
and passion grate discordantly upon the spirit ! 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 82. 



52 STAKNOS. 

DUTY. 

Respect for your manhood or womanhood, 
how small soever your gifts may be, is the 
first of all duties. — Penetralia, p. 106. 

DEATH. 

Death is but the " dark hour" which, like 
a herald, precedes the morning sun of a higher 
Life; even as earthly evil, when not abused, 
is the dungeon-door we pass through, to reach 
the goal of the absolute Good. — Hist, and 
Phil, of Evil, p. 75. 

DESIGN. 

The beauty and harmony of All Things ; 
the Cause, Effect, and End ; the Design ; the 
uses ; the unchangeable and eternal sim- 
plicity of movements externally manifested, 
still which are too immense and powerful to 
be comprehended, — speak only the voice of 
eternal Power and Wisdom! — Nat. Div. 
Rev., p. 111. 



STARNOS. 53 

DIVINITY. 

Divinity, in its central life, is love. In 
this truth you behold the source of " Salva- 
tion " to yourself and to all your neighbors in 
the wide world. — Stellar Key, p. 164. 

DEIFICATION. 

All over-statement is injustice ; the deifica- 
tion of persons is a a spot on the sun " of 
righteousness. Every exaggeration of sup- 
posed gods, every over-statement of the wis- 
dom of spirits, is followed by a corresponding 
diminution of mankind. — Penetralia, p. 169. 

DEPENDENCE. 
We must not accustom our minds to depend 
too much upon the guardian spirit for direc- 
tion and happiness. When we ascertain our 
duty and destiny, or obtain certain convictions 
concerning them, we should act in strict ac- 
cordance with all the light we possess. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 3, p. 328. 



54 STAENOS. 

DESIRE. 

Each radical human desire is a promissory 
note, drawn up and endorsed by the Eternal 
God, payable at the ever-solvent Bank of 
Ultimate Satisfaction. — Penetralia, p. 107. 

DIAKKA. 

Identification, at a spirit-circle, is, in the 
present stage of our development, almost im- 
possible. One day your real friend or rela- 
tive will communicate, next time the fun-lov- 
ing Diakka will simulate your friend's char- 
acter and do all the honors. — Diakka, p. 80. 

DESTINY. 

Man is designed for a career of endless 
Progression ; to which process all evils and 
sufferings are incidental, conditional, tempo- 
ral, and educational, — working out, when not 
abused, "a far more exceeding and eternal 
weight of glory." — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, 
p. 81. 



STARNOS. 55 

DOUBT. 

Doubt, which means uncertainty, is the 
mind's prime incentive to activity. — Heavenly 
Home, p. 39. 

DELIVERANCE. 

There are thousands of pure and loving 
angels looking upon us, desiring our speedy 
deliverance from discord and error. — Eth. of 
Conj. Love, p. 90. 

DEVELOPMENT. 

The full, perfect, and proportionate devel- 
opment of our own nature is the great end 
for which we should constantly and prayer- 
fully strive.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 224. 

DIAKKA. 
A Diakka is one who takes insane delight 
in playing parts, in juggling tricks, in per- 
sonating opposite characters ; to whom prayers 
and profane utterances are of equi value. — 
Diakka, p. 10. 



56 STABNOS. 

DIFFERENCES. 

The difference between men is more exter- 
nal than actual, — more in development than 
in essence. — Har. Man, p. 150. 

DESTINY. 

Hidden deep in the unfathomable heart of 
the infinite Mother is the sweet secret destiny 
of every human heart. — Beyond the Valley, 
p. 370. 

DOUBTS. 

The world is full of conflicting doubts and 
mischievous theories, because men mix and 
confound ideas with thoughts, — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 341. 

DEMONSTRATION. 

There is something deep, lovely, and pos- 
sitive in that philosophy which demonstrates 
to the unilluminated mind the possibility, 
laws, and practicability of angelic intercourse 
and manifestations. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 324. 



STARNOS. 57 

DEEDS. 

Every good deed dropped into the ocean of 
human life makes that ocean better. ... A 
single benevolent act may eventually save a 
nation.. . . Act well your part — " the world 
will be the better for it." — Answers to Ques- 
tions, p. 202. 

DETAILS. 

External history is founded on details, and 
details are despotic. They enslave your judg- 
ment, and force you from a generous faith 
to spiteful dogmatism. . . . Facts are appear- 
ances ; and appearances are deceptive. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 4, p. 26. 

DOUBTS. 

Minds not acquainted with the treasures of 
their own interior structure are easily driven 
ashore by " every wind of doctrine," or else 
into side-channels, where they encounter em- 
barrassments and doubts innumerable. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 5, p. 407. 



58 STARNOS. 

DEITY. 

In tree, in bird, in sky, in star, in your 
parents, in everything human, behold the love 
and will and wisdom of Deity. — Answers to 
Questions, p. 148. 

DOCTRINES. 

The doctrine of immortality and a belief in 
spiritual life existed in the world long before 
either the New or the Old Testament was 
written. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 503. 

DEVOTION. 

So long as you do nothing to merit a loss 
of your own self-respect, and so long as your 
self-abnegation is occasioned by your devotion 
to what you esteem as the best truth, so long 
you are a safe and truly growing man. — 
Heavenly Home, p. 97. 



STAKNOS. 59 



EVENTS. 

Unlike the brute, man adds to his vision 
the spectacles of experience, and learns to 
probe the events of life. — Inner Life, p. 393. 

ERRORS. 

Errors, however beautiful and gold-enam- 
eled by time, must be extracted from the 
human mind by the archangel of eternal 
truth. — Death and After Life, p. 175. 

EMANCIPATION. 

Anything — person, influence, or principle 
— that lifts you out of your mental prison 
and emancipates you is worthy of your truest 
devotion until another and a newer teacher 
comes in answer to your newer necessities. — 
Hist, and Phil, of Evil, p. 218. 



60 STABNOS. 

EXPERIENCE. 

The riches of experience are strewn all over 
the highway of human progress. — Inner Life, 
p. 107. 

ENLIGHTENMENT. 

Enlightenment destroys mystery and com- 
plicity, and opens the door to grandeur, rest- 
ing upon simplicity. — Gt. Har, Vol. 3, 
p. 195. 

EDUCATION. 

Experience is the book of life. And he is 
a good student who knows how to read its 
doctrines ; and he who practically acts upon 
them is educated in the school of God. — Inner 
Life, p. 392. 

ETHICS. 

That system of ethics is good for nothing 
which comes not home to our business and 
bosoms ; the congenial companion at once of 
our Instincts and our Reason ; the guardian 
angel of our being — Inner Life, p. 33. 



STARNOS. 61 

EXPERIENCE. 

A rough experience works out much good ; 
for all evil, in the end, is overruled by right. 

— Inner Life, p. 396. 

ERROR. 

Truth is always simple, whilst Error is 
compound and generally incomprehensible. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 195. 

ETERNITY. 

Eternity is an infinite ocean, and this life 
is but a single drop of its everlasting waters. 

— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 365. 

EXTERNALS. 

Just in proportion as you grow independ- 
ent of externals, — just in proportion as you 
rise out of passions, appetites, unclean spirits, 
and demons, — in that same proportion you en- 
ter into the kingdom of harmony. — Thoughts 
Concerning Religion, p. 149. 



62 STAKKOS. 

ERROR. 

Truth is simple and natural ; Error is com- 
pound and artificial. — Phil, of Spec. Provi- 
dences, p. 39. 

EXPRESSIONS. 

All things visible are expressions of an 
interior productive cause, which is the spirit- 
ual Essence. — Stellar Key, p. 118. 

EXACTNESS. 

Intellectual, or scientific, and mechanical 
exactness is the foundation and precursor of 
spiritual truthfulness. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 22. 

EDUCATION. 

Immortal ideas more than transient 
thoughts, and fixed principles rather than 
fleeting facts, should be roused in the young 
mind as the only foundation of scientific and 
moral improvement. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, 
p. 132. 



STARNOS. 63 

EVIL. 

What is termed evil generally develops 
good.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 148. 

ENEMIES. 

If you walk one mile with your enemy, he 
will try to force you to go twain. Beware of 
the " first false step." — Diakka, p. 15. 

ERRORS. 

Abandon error as soon as you discover it 
in any department of your nature. Remove 
all stones from your grain fields. One truth 
is better than all the errors of Christendom. 
— Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 132. 

EQUILIBRIUM. 

To be wholly material is to be deprived of 
the blessings which flow from the spiritual ; 
and to be wholly spiritual, in this sphere of 
existence, is to be un philosophical and dis- 
cordant. — Inner Life, p. 365. 



64 STARNOS. 

ERROR. 

Error is mortal and cannot live, and Truth 
is immortal and cannot die. — Nat. Div. Rev., 
p. 1. 

EQUALITY. 

Each human soul is identical in germ. 
There is no essential difference between men. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 48. 

ENDOWMENTS. 

No man or woman, educated to realize all 
the noble capacities of the human spirit, can 
consent to pass a life unworthy of innate 
powers and endowments. — Hist, and Phil, of 
Evil, p. 220. 

EXISTENCE. 

Our existence after death is not ghostly 
and ghastly, but is natural, palpable, definable, 
and most desirable, — a relative existence, as 
much in harmony with objects and substances 
as the present. — Memoranda, p. 232. 



STARXOS. 65 

ENERGIES. 

Spirit-principles and energies impregnate 
and saturate with interior life every particle, 
every organ, every fibre, every force, every 
ether, and every essence within or about the 
individual organization. — Temple, p. 18. 

EXPRESSION. 

Simplicity in expression is a partial test of 
truth, — and yet, some truths are so fine, so 
exquisitely attenuated, that to treat them with 
simple words seems somewhat like dressing 
a divine and gentle spirit in homespun sack- 
cloth. — Answers to Questions, p. 60. 

EXPERIENCES. 

If it be true that John saw an angel stand- 
ing in the sun, or if it be true that any man 
at any time ever saw a spirit, it is most rea- 
sonable to presume that the same experience 
will continue to form a part of all human his- 
tory. — Answers to Questions, p. 10. 



66 STARNOS. 

EFFECTS. 

Awaken the Intellect, and set it at work, 
and the effect is skepticism and agitation ; un- 
fold Wisdom, and the effect is spiritual faith 
in things eternal. — Beyond the Valley, p. 361. 

EXCESSES. 

All excess is vicious. . . . Let us handle 
the proofs of our immortality very tenderly, 
for they are of all evidences the most sacred 
to human progress ; but let no man dare 
degrade them by over-consumption and irrev- 
erent familiarity. — Answers to Questions, 
p. 88. 

EVIDENCES. 

The exquisitely sensitive mental condition 
necessary for the reception of spiritual evi- 
dences, and the general ignorance of the laws 
controlling such conditions, is the chief reason 
why so many persons have reaped from the 
experience far more confusion than happiness. 
— Temple, p. 238. 



STARNOS. 67 

EQUALITY. 

The illumination of all the faculties is equal 
in the Spiritual State. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 290. 

EXPERIENCE. 

The Law of Progress is a ready writer ; its 
ink is life ; its pen, all the human world ; its 
volume, Experience. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, 
p. 9. 

EPITAPHS. 

The grave is the sweetest sorrow, — it is 
wreathed in a mystic solitude, with enchant- 
ments for the heart. The kindest thought is, 
the parent of the epitaph. — Inner Life, p. 157. 

ERRORS. 

Errors, like the shadows of escaping clouds, 
will disappear when the " Sun of Righteous- 
ness" — of wisdom, truth, and brotherly love 
— shall send its all-searching light and heal- 
ing warmth into their midst. — Approaching 
Crisis, p. 150. 



68 STABNOS. 

ETERNITY. 

Whoso questions Nature aright truly reads 
the scriptures which teach of God and Eter- 
nity. — Death and After Life, p. 176. 

ERROR. 

Error is the misapprehension of Truth. 
Evil consists in knowingly advocating what 
is misapprehended. . . . Truth and goodness, 
on the other hand, are the sovereign principles 
of existence, and in their boundless flight 
there is unutterable freedom. — Answers to 
Questions, p. 151. 

EVIDENCES. 

Man's immortality, to be of any practical 
service to him, must be felt in his religious 
nature, and not merely understood by his in- 
tellectual faculties. . . . True evidences come 
through the two sources Intuition and Re- 
flection, — through the inward sources of 
Wisdom. — Penetralia, p. 248. 



STARNOS. 69 



FIDELITY. 

If the soul is faithful to Nature and her 
principles, there can and will be no limits to 
its health, happiness, and power to work the 
sublimest miracles. The faithful spirit is 
God-like in its every manifestation. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, p. 295. 

FABLES. 

By scanning the fables of the past and com- 
paring them with the realities of the present, 
we can see that what were considered miracu- 
lous and supernatural are now recognized as 
the "matter-of-course" triumphs of progres- 
sive science, — as things ordinary and natural 
to the constitution of matter and principles. — 
Inner Life, p. 1. 



70 STABNOS. 

FACTS. 

Facts are only things, but truths are prin- 
ciples.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 178. 

FORCES. 

Nature, through all her forces, works for 
the development of individualized human 
beings. — Phil, of Spir. Inter., p. 354. 

FREEDOM. 

Mind is immortal. Mind is imperial. It 
bears no mark of high or low, rich or poor. 
It heeds no bound of time or place, of rank 
or circumstances. It asks but freedom. — 
Har. Man, p. 23. 

FOUNTAINS. 

The immortal spirit is the fountain. The 
everlasting waters of this fountain are its 
principles of love. The final coherent mani- 
festation of these principles, in their totality, 
is called wisdom. — Fountain, p. 114. 



STAKNOS. 71 

FIDELITY. 

Fidelity is the integrity of your soul to it- 
self, — obedience to the angel of God within, 
— to your best and highest attractions. — 
Penetralia, p. 82. 

FACULTIES. 

Like immortal jewels dropped from the 
divine Crown, harmoniously set in the earthen 
ring of the familiar microcosm, so man's fac- 
ulties shine forth practically, throughout the 
life and lip and deeds of all the after ages. — 
Hist, and Phil, of Evil, p. 14. 

FLOWERS. 

Fix your affections upon flowers ; let the 
thorns take care of themselves. Lift your 
eyes toward the mountains ; let the dark 
ravines exist where they must. Become a 
seer of the good that men do ; let their evils 
make but little impression upon your judg- 
ment. — Answers to Questions, p. 222. 



72 STARNOS. 

FORMS. 

Forms are the thoughts of Nature, as 
thoughts are the forms of the mind. — Nat. 
Div. Rev., p. 315. 

FIRMNESS. 

Be thou firm in the ways of wisdom; then 
the angels will kindly look down and bless 
you. — Temple, p. 322. 

FEAR. 

Ignorance married to mind begets that most 
helpless and wretched of psychological chil- 
dren, called fear. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, 
p. 18. 

FREEDOM. 

That mind which has stricken off the 
shackles of mental slavery, and which, with 
new-born gladness, realizes the eternal dignity 
and birthright of individual life, is certain to 
sing the songs of Freedom and of boundless 
Reform. — Answers to Questions, p. 6. 



STARNOS. 73 

FEAR. 

Let us speak all the truth we have the 
power to behold, and fear not.— Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 327. 

FASCINATION. 

There is a resistless fascination in a person 
who is well-balanced and wholesome. — Eth. 
of Conj. Love, p. 84. 

FLOWERS. 

Flowers bloom o'er the death-bed of that 
mind which sees God's smiles behind frown- 
ing clouds and tempests. — Phil, of Spir. 
Inter., p. 345. 

FRIENDSHIP. 

What pleasure do we derive from the sweet, 
musical voice of friendship and affection, 
sweeping with winning tones the chords of 
the soul, and awakening the harmony of its 
ten thousand strings! — Gt. Har. Vol.1, 
p. 82. 



74 STARNOS. 

FORMATION. 

The Harmonial Philosophy, . . . affirms 
the eternity of matter, — that there is no crea- 
tion, but formation. — Inner Life, p. 52. 

FULFILLMENT. 

To be more, and to profess less, is fulfilling 
life's grand objects, and taking a diviner posi- 
tion in the universe. — Thoughts on Religion, 
p. 71. 

FORCE. 

In force you see what is rudimental ; in 
power that which is sublime. No defeat in 
power ; always defeat in force. — Hist, and 
Phil, of Evil, 203. 

FREEDOM. 

The mind is designed for boundless free- 
dom ; its aspirations are unto the beautiful, 
the glorious, the sublime, and unto the Great 
Moving Principle of the Universe. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 2, p. 255. 



STARNOS. 75 

FAITH. 

Faith is the innate affirmation of the im- 
mortal spirit. — Beyond the Valley, p. 319. 

FIRMNESS. 

Be just and natural in your spiritual 
growth ; then you will be as firm as the ever- 
lasting hills. — Thoughts on Religion, p. 196. 

FORMS. 

When the mind elevates itself to higher 
thoughts and purposes, all forms and uses 
receive an inner and more profound significa- 
tion. All life, too, receives a deeper and 
holier explanation. — Memoranda, p. 257. 

FAITHFULNESS. 

Act well the part of a spiritual being ; be 
faithful to what is true and good ; the future 
will take loving care of both itself and you. 
This is the heavenly rest that comes from 
true inspiration of ideas. — Death and After 
Life, p. 172. 



76 STARNOS. 



G. 



GENIUS. 

Behind all beautiful robes is always hidden 
and neglected some divinely commissioned 
genius. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 240. 

GENERALIZATIONS. 

The developed mind flies away from the 
" sphere of facts, and seeks rest and refresh- 
ment among genial generalizations." — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 4, p. 27. 

GROWTH. 

All true moral growth and wisdom are the 
higher departments of a divine Temple, whose 
foundations rest upon the broad granite basis 
of science, and whose turrets extend far above 
into the tranquil realms of celestial life. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 3, p. 23. 



STARNOS. 77 

GOODNESS. 

Perfect justice and boundless goodness, 
upon which the infinite Temple of the Father 
and Mother is constructed and inflexibly up- 
held, are the everlasting principles of a true, 
universal, and all-satisfying Religion. — Heav- 
enly Home, p. 204. 

GRATITUDE. 

When the sky pours out its tears, when the 
tempest strikes the sea, when nature portends 
her elemental strifes, and the thunders leap 
down the wild mountains, rushing with all 
the wildness and power of the cataract ; then 
— then be calm and believing ; for when the 
shower is past, when the clouds pass away, 
when the sun shines out again over the green 
fields, over the green lawns and variegated 
meadows, then the good of the whole is revealed, 
and a million birds will join numberless flow- 
ers in a hymn of gratitude for all that is 
passed. — Inner Life, p. 108. 



78 STAKNDS. 

GOVERNMENT. 

Self-government in the individual is possible 
only in that state of mind which rests upon 
Justice, — upon the unselfish light of eternal 
Love and wisdom. The same is true of a 
nation. — Arabula, p. 154. 

GOODNESS. 

Wisdom sees a central element of goodness 
in the soul, — an angel, sleeping enfeebled, in 
life's manger, — and not a fiend, not a self- 
conscious devil, as taught by the mistaken 
priesthood. — Temple, p. 357. 

4 GOD. 
Every man of reason and every woman of 
intuition knows that God is in the deepest 
Heart, — an inexhaustible fountain of Love, 
as well as of Wisdom, — expanding through 
all that illimitable structure which we call 
" the physical universe." — Thoughts on Re- 
ligion, p. 80. 



STARNOS. 79 

GROWTH. 

Universal growth in the spiritual, and a 
corresponding advancement in true individual 
manhood and womanhood, constitute the only 
prevention of abounding sorrows and insanity. 
— Temple, p. 341. 

GUIDANCE. 

Be guided by Principles, not by spirits ; 
by Reason, not by the high-sounding dictum, 
or the soft persuasions, emanating from any 
external source. Be yourself wholly. — Eth. 
of Conj. Love, p. 66. 

GOD. 

God is the central magnet of the universe; 
the spiritual world is the continuation of the 
natural world ; and man's spirit comes out of 
his brain at death just as the flower comes 
out of the bud in the garden ; it is all beauti- 
fully natural, and there is no miracle. — 
Thoughts on Religion, p. 196. 



80 STARNOS. 

GOD. 

God is an Eternal Magnet of concentrated 
goodness. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 349. 

GOVERNMENT. 

As a nation we need less government and 
more growth. — Penetralia, p. 386. 

GOSPELS. 

Blessed are the truly wise, for they can 
everywhere read the gospel of Deity. — Inner 
Life, p. 67. 

GROWTH. 

Growth is the central law of our being and 
the object of all exertion, as it will be the 
result of all experience. — Arabula, p. 400. 

GRACE. 

Grace in the affections lends beauty to the 
face and sweetness to the body. One cardinal 
grace is sincerity, which is the key to endur- 
ing and perfect confidence. — Fountain, p. 1 19. 



STARNOS. 81 

GODLINESS. 

To be like God let us aspire to God. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 2, p. 180. 

GREATNESS. 

Divine greatness is reflected in all things. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 36. 

GERMS. 
From a germ of good and truth all things, 
as well as all philosophies, were and are 
developed.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 240. 

GENTLENESS. 

Love that which is lovely, and deal gently 
with that which has been misdirected or im- 
perfectly developed. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 414. 

GUARDIANS. 

Our guardian spirits come from a fairer 
and serener Home than ours. . . . They come 
to make us better, wiser, and happier. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 3, p. 317. 



82 STAKTSTOS. 



H. 



HARMONY. 

Harmony is the guardian angel of univer- 
sal Love.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 155. 

HOPE. 

The expanding inspirations of deathless 
Hope glow potentially within the surging 
soul. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, p. 31. 

HAPPINESS. 

Happiness very slowly comes to one who 
persists in the states of discord. Beautiful 
music, the fragrance of flowers, the luxurious 
melody of singing birds, and the musical 
voices of many waters, come only when you 
internally deserve them. — Death and After 
Life, p. 25. 



STARNOS. 83 

HAPPINESS. 

For physical happiness obey the physical 
laws ; for organic happiness obey the organic 
laws ; for moral happiness obey the moral 
laws.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 344. 

HEALTH. 

Moral health depends more upon physical 
harmony than upon the writings of religious 
chieftains or upon the prayers of the so-called 
contrite heart.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 229. 

HYPOCRISY. 

A selfish man, a deceiver, a hypocrite, — 
a man who lives in his family like a beast and 
before folks like a gentleman, — has not ex- 
perienced a change of heart. A swinish char- 
acter always gets "lengthwise in the trough." 
He stretches himself at full length in the 
advantages of his home, and closes out the 
choicest friends of his wife and children. — 
Free Thoughts, p. 146. 



84 STAKNOS. 

HEALTH. 

Health of body and mind is happiness of 
body and mind. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 44. 

HABITS. 

Man should regulate his life, and all his 
habits, by the solar laws of nature. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 4, p. 166. 

HARMONY. 

If the individual is unfolded into Harmony 
with himself, he has grown into immediate 
connection with the spiritual World. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 2, p. 156. 

HOMES. 

The Spirits' Home is a natural world, reg- 
ulated by natural laws, covered by a natural 
firmament, animated by a natural Deity, pop- 
ulated by natural spirits and angels who were 
once men and women, and it is therefore 
natural that dwelling-places should diversify 
the landscape. — Answers to Questions, p. 64. 



STARNOS. 85 

HUMILITY. 

It would seem to be a universal law that 
the sweetest flowers grow in the vales of 
humility. — Inner Life, p. 93. 

HOSPITALITY. 

Great minds overlook the small, and capa- 
cious hearts make room for the discords of the 
undeveloped. — Answers to Questions, p. 369, 

HABILIMENTS. 

Unmask thyself, and wear no garb but 
what Nature gave. Appear as thou art, — 
the eternal child of an Eternal Father! — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 70. 

HAPPINESS. 

Learn to be wise and gentle ; and add to 
gentleness, love ; and to love, wisdom ; and 
wisdom, being pure, begets illumination, and 
illumination, happiness. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, 
p. 58. 



86 STAHNOS. 

HOPE. 

The hope of immortality is an evidence 
beyond the reach of argument — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 299. 

HATRED. 

The indescribable meanness of gold grab- 
bers and gold worshippers is transcended only 
by the unspeakable meanness of those who 
hate and envy them. — Temple, p. 437. 

HAPPINESS. 

The secret of happiness consists in remov- 
ing unnecessary friction in one's own pathway, 
and in assisting to remove it from the path- 
way of others. — Thoughts on Religion, p. 170. 

HOME. 

Happy are they who, because of their har- 
mony and freedom of Soul, cannot depart 
from home, . . . being, in themselves, the 
very essence and elements of its constitution. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 195. 



STARNOS. 87 

HAPPINESS. 

Happiness is an effect, of which goodness 
is the only possible cause. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5? 
p. 101. 

HARMONY. 

Unto those who live in the kingdom of 
harmony all good and all truth and all the 
joy of righteousness shall be added. — Beyond 
the Valley, p. 367. 

HOPE. 

When the sun of Reason absorbs its far- 
spreading radiance and disappears behind the 
hills of Reflection, and a mental twilight 
comes on, drawing a dark curtain of doubts 
o'er the soul's immediate prospect, — then it 
is that, through the darkness and despair, 
gleam the innumerable stars of Hope which, 
like the royal orbs of light that traverse the 
boundless domain of immensity, are visible 
and beautiful only when the sun sinks behind 
the western hills.— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 297. 



88 STARNOS. 

HARMONIES. 

The universal Harmonies of the spiritual 
world are based upon the principles of Love 
and Wisdom.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 229. 

HAPPINESS. 

Only those who lovingly and willingly live 
to benefit the world find true happiness in the 
bosom of Nature and God, — Arabula, p. 402. 

HEREDITY. 

Blessed is he who possesses the power (of 
Knowledge) and the will (of Spirit) to rise 
triumphant over his incidental discord and 
hereditary imperfections. — Temple, p. 331. 

HARMONY. 

When the individual is perfectly healthy, 
. . . the organization is a splendid representa- 
tion of spiritual beauties, musical harmonies, 
and symmetrical developments. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 1, p. 97. 



STARNOS. 89 

HARMONY. 

The higher and more harmonious the mind 
the nearer does it approach to the Divine 
Centre, — the inexhaustible Fountain of Love, 
Power, and Wisdom. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 414. 

HUMANITY. 

Humanity is destined to sweep onward 
through and through evil — through wars and 
through justice and peace — until the marvel- 
lous melodies of the Summer Land mingle 
with the sympathies and happy music of man- 
kind. — Beyond the Valley, p. 150. 

HEAVEN. 

When you are truly consecrated to a prin- 
ciple, the kingdom of heaven is very near to 
you, and you are very near to it, and it is 
no longer necessary that you should hire 
ministers to steer you along the road to a sal- 
vation from the consequences of sin. — Arab- 
ula, p. 385. 



90 STARNOS. 

HEALTH. 

In perfect health . . . the spiritual princi- 
ple is refined and attracted upward by the 
Divine Mind.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 95. 

HEREDITY. 

The mind may, by the exercise of its own 
great love-and-will powers, eliminate both 
the causes and the consequences of its in- 
herited faults, evils, and error. — Heavenly 
Home, p. 275. 



I. 



IDEALS. 

Every man in his best moments has an 
Ideal self to which he aspires, — a spiritual 
magnet, so to speak, drawing him onward 
and upward above the crudities of his animal 
nature. — Inner Life, p. 69. 



STARNOS. 91 

IDEAS. 

An idea is the form or organization of a 
conception ; the latter is the soul of the 
former.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 257. 

INFINITY. 

Infinity is as many times more infinite than 
you now suppose as there are moments in your 
eternal life.— Gt. Har. - Vol. 1, p. 177. 

IMPERFECTIONS. 

The divine cannot flow into human struc- 
tures without the former participating in the 
imperfections of the latter. — Iuner Life, p. 57. 

ILLUMINATION. 

If we desire reliable illumination, let us go 
upon the Alps of personal harmony. If we 
would hear the " voices of angels " under- 
standing^, let us go upon the mounts of puri- 
fication, temperance, and simplicity. — Inner 
Life, p. 368. 



92 STARNOS. 

INTUITION. 

The voice of Truth is heard whispering its 
first melodies in the soul's intuitions. — Inner 
Life, p. 67. 

INSPIRATION. 

It signifies the inflowing of thought, — the 
breathing in of sentiments. — Inner Life, 
p. 69. 

INDIVIDUALITY. 

Every spirit is developed and organized 
sufficiently unlike any other spirit, or sub- 
stance in the universe, to maintain its indi- 
viduality throughout eternal spheres. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, p. 189. 

INFLUENCES. 

There is not a budding rose, not a desert 
flower, not an ocean gem, not a star that 
gleams, nor a stream that ripples by, that 
does not exert its own peculiar influence upon 
the mind. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 95. 



STARNOS. 93 

INTUITION. 

Intuition is the Soul's telegraph, — trans- 
mitting truths from the depths of Genius to 
the summits of Wisdom, — informing, as by a 
single flash, the internal man of that which 
he might otherwise be long years in learning 
by the external methods of investigation. 
. . . Woman is more endowed with " Intui- 
tion " than man. — Inner Life, p. 46. 

ILLUMINATION. 

The superior condition, like the diamond 
in the enamel, is set in the framework of in- 
dividual harmony, — harmony in the broadest 
and highest sense. Such harmony is the 
foundation, the germ, and the supporter of 
spiritual illumination. . . . Men will become 
mentally exalted and spiritually minded just 
as fast as they subjugate the material to the 
spiritual ; the body to the mind ; the present 
to the future; the passions to the Reason. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 285. 



94 STARNOS. 

INTEGRITY. 

There is no power more positive to evil 
than absolute self -integrity, or than innate 
love and practice of unselfish goodness. — 
Temple, p. 263. 

INSPIRATION. 

Like everything else in this universe of 
progression and development, true inspiration 
is of various kinds and graduated by innumer- 
able degrees, as regards quality and quantity, 
. . . it is the illuminating presence and influ- 
ence of God in the soul. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 296. 

IMMORTALITY. 

It is a tremendous thought, that a human 
being, once born, can never die! . . . Onward 
lives triumphantly the real internal man. . . . 
Onward forever we go, — the embassadors' of 
infinite uses, of eternal benefits. We should 
be properly born, then, as well as properly 
educated.— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 358. 



STAHNOS. 95 

IGNORANCE. 

Ignorance is a negative or passive fulcrum 
upon which the intellectual lever of spiritual 
progress acts with an almighty and universal 
sweep. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, p. 75. 

INDIVIDUALITY. 

The material organism is designed speci- 
fically and fundamentally to perform the 
function of giving individuality to the spirit- 
ual elements. — Answers to Questions, p. 55. 

IMPATIENCE. 

The wickedest demon of our day is the imp 
of impatience. He attacks the nerves, and 
in the twinkling of an eye his victim is in a 
" murderous rage." He kindles a great fire 
in the blood ; he attacks the throbbing heart, 
and runs over the bosom the fingers of death ; 
then down goes his object, subject, and slave, 
covered with the black mantle of " sudden 
disease." — Temple, p. 49. 



96 STARNOS. 

INFANCY. 

It is mental infancy which believes in a 
fickle and wrathful God. — Fountain, p. 191. 

INTUITION. 

Intuition tells you that you are related to 
an inner universe. — Beyond the Valley, p. 
389. 

IGNORANCE. 

The doctrine that " this life is a vale of 
tears," — " a fleeting show," — " a place origi- 
nally designed to try men's souls," — is, as 
I see it, the doctrine of ignorance. — Inner 
Life, p. 400. 

INSPIRATION. 

A quickening and vivification of the truth- 
attracting affections natural to man is in- 
spiration ; revelation is the appropriation 
and comprehension, by the truth-containing 
faculties, of the resultant thoughts and ideas. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 16. 



STARNOS. 97 

INCARNATION. 

The holy elements and attributes of God 
are incarnated in every human spirit. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 2, p. 180. 

IMPERISHABLENESS. 

Look within thee, O man, and behold the 
imperishable, . . . the inmost, the harmonial, 
and the everlasting. — Penetralia, p. 441. 

IDEAS. 

Ideas are principles, — the elements from 
which the spirit-essence is obtained by vintage. 
Spirit is the ultimate wine of all elements ; 
the child essentially, not by organization, but 
of the Paternal and Maternal fountain of 
Divine Unity — of "God," as before said, 
and "Mother" Nature. . . . Ideas, there- 
fore, are the indwelling properties of spirit, 
— the intelligent constituents, or principles, 
of the one indivisible essence. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 63. 



98 STARNOS. 

IMMORALITY. 

He is immorally situated whose duty tells 
him one thing and his interests another. — 
Nat. Div. Rev., p. 685. 

IMMUTABILITY. 

Matter and mind are eternal ; by marriage 
they propagate the worlds which swarm the 
vast infinitude. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 289. 

INHERITANCE. 

By inheritance, a single human spirit is an 
abridged edition of the entire universe. . . . 
Each contains, in focal concentration, the 
attributes of all. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 99. 

IGNORANCE. 

Ignorance, which has been, and still ap- 
pears to be, inexorable in its influences must 
be destroyed by the annihilating hand of 
Truth and Wisdom, which are omnipotent. — 
Nat. Div. Rev., p. 16. 



STARNOS. 99 

INVITATIONS. 

Like the winged germs of autumnal flowers 
come the gentle invitations of angels. Over 
our thoughts they flow like the waves of music 
on the evening air. — Answers to Questions, 
p. 368. 

INFORMATION. 

Acquired information is the kit of tools, 
the musical instrument, or forwarding agent, 
by which the intuitive and inspired mind 
demonstrates its constructive truths and hid- 
den melody. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5 ; p. 14. 

INTEGRITY. 

Constitutional integrity, as as effect of 
physical and mental equilibrium or thorough 
health, is the foundation of every known or 
immaginable excellence. It is the mathe- 
matically accurate basis on which may stand, 
eternally unchanged, Truth's own Harmonial 
Temple.— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 17. 



100 STARNOS. , 

INQUIRY. 

Free and unrestrained inquiry is necessary 
to moral and intellectual progress, and there- 
fore should be encouraged. — Nat. Div. Rev., 
p. 9. 

INTEGRITY. 

Be true-hearted, reverent, and faithful, — 
full of integrity in the performance of all 
things; be firmly determined to develop and % 
apply the principles of Nature to every thing, 
— and the highest happiness will be the in- 
evitable consequence. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 228. 

INTUITION. 

Intuition is "Pure Reason" which does not 
always need for its growth the gymnastical 
exercises of the outward perceptive faculties. 
It is the inwrought wisdom of the eternal 
spirit, which ever transcends the schools, and 
confounds the templed doctors. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 14. 



STARNOS. 101 

IDEALS. 

Every person's Ideal is modified by the 
force and. flow and shape of circumstances. — 
Free Thoughts, p. 154. 

INTEGRITY. 

Of all principles requiring strength and 
independence of character to maintain, there 
is none more conspicuous than the principle 
of integrity to one's own nature. — Har. Man, 
p. 151. 

IMMORTALITY. 

To the spiritually-minded, the idea of an 
individualized eternal existence is redolent 
with hallowed grandeur, and it gleams with 
gorgeous mysteries. . . . The wisdom-illu- 
mined soul goes soaring and singing of the 
excellence and beauty of the theme, and his 
conceptions are " as the beaded bubbles that 
sparkle on the rim of the cup of immortality, 
as wreaths of rainbow-spray from the pure 
cataracts of truth." — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 281. 



102 STARNOS. 

IGNORANCE. 

Superficial high-mindedness, or the positive- 
Dess of ignorance and the pride of knowledge, 
seal the soul to the influx of God's Spirit and 
Wisdom.— Stellar Key, p. 19. 

IDEALS. 

The reformer must labor on, without im- 
petuosity, without idleness, without hatred or 
malace or revenge ; but with inextinguishable 
aspirations toward an ideal development of 
universal goodness and truth. The Ideal 
first: then the Actual. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 237. 

INJUSTICE. 

All injustice is to be first examined, then 
understood, then acknowledged, then forgot- 
ten. A bad deed lives within us, or within 
others, till love is kindled upon the soul's 
altar, on the mount of wisdom, in whose flame 
all wrong is utterly consumed.-— Har. Man, 
p. 159. 



STARNOS. 103 

IMPRESSIONS. 

Good communications depend upon good 
states of mind. If you would have true im- 
pressions, live true lives. — Inner Life, p. 368. 

INSANITY. 

Insanity is a disease of the mind. Disease 
means discord. Therefore any discord of the 
mind is insanity. — Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 43. 

INNOCENCE. 

Ignorance is the parent of unhealthy and 
unchaste imaginings. . . . Truth has nothing 
in its nature to cause a blush to mantle the 
cheek of innocence. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 64. 

INVESTIGATION. 

There is nothing too sacred or too exalted 
for the investigations of that soul whose 
religious emotions and moral dignity are in- 
spired with a love of truth. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 51. 



104 STARNOS. 

INFINITY. 

When you truly approach the Infinite you 
sensibly become a part of it. — Thoughts on 
Religion, p. 67. 

INVESTIGATION. 

Anything is too holy for an angry debate, 
but nothing is too sacred for calm investiga- 
tion. — Thoughts on Religion, p. 8. 

INFIDELITY. 

Infidelity is the willful violation of that 
within you which you believe to be Truth, 
Justice, Righteousness. — Penetralia, p. 82. 

INSANITY. 

Interpreted in the light of unchangeable 
principles, insanity is no more caused by the 
infestation of individualized demons than is 
dyspepsia caused by the sting of a fly, or 
epilepsy by the perpetual flow of Niagara 
Falls.— Temple, p. 72. 



STAKNOS. 105 

IDEAS. 

Ideas, like worlds, are in the atmosphere. 
— Beyond the Valley, p. 379. 

INTUITION. 

Intuition is the central dialectician who 
inspects the substantial principles of truth 
itself, like an infallible logician at the throne 
of the superior animation, who predetermines 
the forms in which truth shall address itself 
to the individual mind. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 32. 



JUSTICE. 

With the Deity, Justice is both means and 
end in the elaboration of the material and 
spiritual Universe. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 150. 



106 STARNOS. 

JEALOUSY. 

Jealousy poisons the soul, and casts a poi- 
sonous odor around to blight the happiness 
of all it reaches. — Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 61. 

JUSTICE. 

When distributive justice pervades the 
social world, then virtue and morality will 
bloom with an immortal beauty. The sun of 
righteousness will arise in the horizon of uni- 
versal industry and shed its genial rays over 
all the fields of peace and plenty and human 
happiness. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 782. 



K. 

KNOWLEDGE. 

The knowledge that personal life is con- 
tinued beyond the grave is worthy the exer- 
tions of the finest powers of every doubting 
mind. — Fountain, p. 219. 



STARNOS. 107 

KNOWLEDGE. 

The best knowledge in the world is attrib- 
utable to the world's ignorance. . . . Defeat 
is just as truly a part of God's system as vic- 
tory. — Phil, of Spir. Inter., p. 336. 

KINDNESS. 

The supreme law of kindness and love, 
which is justice, should govern man in all his 
relations and intercourse with his subordinates 
and servants in the floods and fields of exist- 
ence. — Fountain, p. 50. 

KNOWLEDGE. 

Knowledge or learning is an effect of a 
multitude of facts and opinions consigned to 
the recesses of the memory, and which are 
based upon external Perception and Testi- 
mony. . . . Knowledge is acquired and super- 
ficial, hut wisdom is unfolded and intui- 
tional— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 216. 



108 STARNOS. 



LOVE. 

Love is the primary cause of all phenomena 
in physical creation. Love is the Soul of the 
Deity.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 136. 

LIGHT. 

Light in its essence is Love ; and Love is 
Life. . . . Light is the material vehicle of 
Divine Life.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 279. 

LAW. 

Every movement in universal Nature is a 
direct response to the imperative command of 
immutable Law, which is the rule of divine 
action eternally established by Him who 
presides over and animates an infinite crea- 
tion ! — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 43. 



STAKNOS. 109 

LOVE. 

To love wisely is to practice the religion of 
eternity. — Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 72. 

LENIENCY. 

He who is truthful and free, and every- 
where carries with him a heart of love and 
kindness, measures man not by the length of 
his creed, but by the life within and its exter- 
nal manifestations. — Memoranda, p. 258. 

LABOR. 

All true Labor "is joy divine." . . . 
Castle and fortress are destroyed by the labor 
of the ivy, the lichen, and the wall-flower. 
Ignorance is overthrown by the labors of 
knowledge. Rock-built citadels decay beneath 
the incessant action of harmoniously rolling 
seasons. Vice is displaced by the labor of 
virtue. Life is exalted by the action of its 
varied elements. — Answers to Questions, p. 
•378. 



110 STARNOS. 

LIGHT. 

The Light which Truth giveth cannot be 
extinguished, — it is the Life of the Universe. 
— Phil, of Spir. Inter., p. 265. 

LIFE. 

Wherever you behold Life there you be- 
hold Love. . . . There is but one principle of 
Life in the universe. Life issues from a 
Deific Fountain ; it sends forth countless 
streams ; and each organization drinks accord- 
ing to its capacity. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4. p. 32. 

LOVE. 

Love can be free only when wholly eman- 
cipated from licentiousness. Love will never 
be pure until Wisdom waves the banner of 
liberty over its head. . . . Love must be dis- 
entangled from the webwork of ignorance. 
It must be upraised, and worshipped as the 
spirit of God in man. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, 
p. 295. 



STARNOS. Ill 

LOYALTY. 

Learn the beautiful lesson of strict loyalty 
to your deepest convictions. — Hist, and Phil, 
of Evil, p. 203. 

LIFE. 

Inasmuch as life is universal, death cannot 
mar the divine constitution of things. — Nat. 
Div. Rev., p. 669. 

LIBERTY. 

The safety of a true Harmonial Republic 
consists in organic liberty, which brings to 
every man his natural Rights and attractive 
Industry. — Har. Man, p. 20. 

LOVE. 

The deep, divine, vitalizing, vivifying, and 
immortal essence of the Soul is Love; the 
passive or neutral faculty is Will ; the re- 
straining, governing, dissecting, and harmo- 
nizing faculty is Wisdom. — Gt. Har. Vol. 
2, p. 135. 



112 STAKNOS. 

LABOR. 

Labor, righteously and persistently be- 
stowed, is the surest self-answering prayer. — 
Fountain, p. 190. 

LORD. 

That innate power which takes hold upon 
infinitude, which is allied to justice and 
truth and virtue, and with all that is pure 
and noble and sublime, — that power, resid- 
ing at the heart of your inmost life, is the 
coming Lord of all circumstances. — Temple, 
p. 12. 

LIBERTY. 

Beyond the valley of bondage to error and 
injustice you behold upon your mother's 
white bosom an immortal diamond, — spark- 
ling with the prismatic splendor of a galaxy 
of suns, — and the name thereof is Liberty! 
All exertion, all life, all unrest, all discontent, 
all exerted energy mean inherent efforts for 
liberty. — Beyond the Valley, p. 321. 



STARNOS. 113 

LIBERTY. 

Accept the idea of human progress, and 
you rise out of the " slough of despond," and 
forthwith begin to enjoy the glorious liberty 
of the Sons of God. — Hist, and Phil, of 
Evil, p. 219. 



M. 

MUSIC. 

Our mouths and lives will discourse sweet 
music if we will but correctly apply " expe- 
rience" to them. — Inner Life, p. 403. 

MISSION. 

If you live righteously, doing no harm and 
some good wherever you can, then you are 
performing your mission. There is nothing 
supernatural in it. — Inner Life, p. 385. 



114 STAKNOS. 

MUSIC. 

Every thing which moves and feels and 
thinks in the Omnipresent spirit of God is 
impregnated with music. What a gospel is 
this ! — Inner Life, p. 402. 

MATTER. 

Matter does not itself perform the labor of 
thinking, but is the elastic, the plastic, and 
always-efficient agent to do the work of mas- 
ter-forces, which it has the privilege to clothe 
and to accompany. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 183. 

MOURNING. 

It is far more reasonable and appropriate 
to weep at the majority of marriages which 
occur in this world than to lament when 
man's immortal spirit escapes from its earthly 
form, to live and unfold in a higher and 
better country. . . . Robe yourselves with 
garments of light to honor the spirit's birth 
into a higher life.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 171. 



STABXOS. 115 

MYSTERIES. 

The progressive growth of the spirit in 
truth and right is more mysterious than the 
coming and going of terrestrial winds. — Death 
and After Life, p. 81. 

MARRIAGE. 

True Marriage is the most divine, sacred, 
and eternal of all relations into which the 
human and immortal Soul enters. ... A 
true union, a true oneness of Soul, is developed 
by an internal affinity, by the interior and 
eternal Law of Association. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, 
p. 193. 

MIND. 

The mind is designed for boundless free- 
dom ; its aspirations are unto the beautiful, 
the glorious, the sublime, and unto the Great 
Moving Principle of the Universe. . . . The 
mind seeks eternal things because it is itself 
everlasting and eternal. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, 
p. 255. 



116 STAKNOS. 

MOTIVES. 

Motives, when high, lift up the soul, which 
is thus prepared to be a better neighbor and 
more successful in all the genuine enterprises 
of present life. — Death and After Life, p. 99; 

MERIT. 

Downright reality and substantial merit 
drive out the devils of dress and display, just 
as a true diamond is most beautiful when set 
in plain black, with a fine thread of pure gold 
running round the edge of the ring. — Our 
Heavenly Home, p. 53. 

MARTYRDOM. 

There is an irresistible Gulf Stream of disr 
tributive justice, with ebbless tide, palpitating 
with deific energy, setting straight through the 
ocean of human life, which compels a bene- 
fitted posterity to crown with glory the man 
who suffered martyrdom by mistaken ances- 
tors. — Penetralia, p. 174. 



STARNOS. 117 

MAN. 

Man is a " harp of a thousand strings," 
which, when properly tuned and played upon, 
gives forth the most sweet and delightful 
harmony.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 170. 

MEMORY. 

In the grave are entombed every error, 
regret, defect, resentment, and unkind remem- 
brance. The look, the smile, the bearing, the 
good deed, the noble saying, are preserved in 
the palace of memory. — Inner Life, p. 156. 

MEDITATION. 

The reflective faculties, relaxing their hold 
upon passing events, repose serenely within 
the flowery solitudes of Wisdom. From the 
holy mountain of moral meditation — whereon 
there is an intuitive perception and realization 
of eternal principles — the matured mind 
calmly contemplates the world. — Hist, and 
Phil, of Evil, p. 49. 



118 STARNOS. 

METHODS. 

The laws of nature are the eternal methods 
of Deity. — Inner Life, p. 52. 

MANNERS. 

Manners are superior to ceremonies. The 
first flow out of the spirit ; the latter from 
education. — Heavenly Home, p. 51. 

MISSIONARIES. 

The true missionary is a preacher and 
practitioner of fraternal love, justice, truth, 
liberty. . . . Fraternal love is the missionary 
blossom of a spiritual civilization. — Heav- 
enly Home, p. 274. 

MARRIAGE. 

True marriage is predicated upon mutual 
conjugal attraction between two souls, wheth- 
er " at first sight," or as the result of long 
acquaintance and intimate friendship. — An- 
swers to Questions, p. 281. 



STARKOS. 119 

MARTYRS. 

Ignorance, the greatest foe of man, hath 
filled the world with martyrs. — Inner Life, 
p. 398. 

MISFORTUNES. 

Ignorance is man's strongest enemy ; and 
the cause of his greatest misfortunes. — Magic 
Staff, p. 109. 

MIND. 

The mind is a world of powers which will 
not silently suffer the ignoring of self-imprison- 
ment. A wonderful incorporation of individ- 
ual self-conscious centres of thoughts. — Tem- 
ple, p. 32. 

MYTHS. 

Could we but intelligently interrogate the 
rounded pebble at our feet, it would reveal to 
us events or acts in the elemental drama of 
this world more wonderful and sublime than 
all the myths of ancient days. — Inner Life, 
p. 15. 



120 STARNOS. 

MUSIC. 

Music, in its perfect and full expression, is 
a revelation of the whole system of Nature. — 
Heavenly Home, p. 109. 

MAN. 

Man is the Dome of the material creation, 
— the window through which heaven illumi- 
nates the earth. — Inner Life, p. 51. 

MAGIC. 

The magic mirror of the spiritual universe 
is illuminated with the white light shed abroad 
by the sun, visible in the firmament of the 
Summer Land. — Temple, p. 198. 

MIND. 

The mind is an instrument which, when it 
is tuned and set to a high note on the spirit- 
ual scale of music, the angels can awaken 
to the sweetest melody. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 316. 



STABNOS. 121 

MIND. 

Every mind is a lens, so to speak, on which 
the sun and earth paint new pictures. — Inner 
Life, p. 406. 

MARRIAGE. 

There is but one true marriage, namely : 
the marriage of the right man with the right 
woman, forever. — Memoranda, p. 248. 

MYTHOLOGY. 

Mythology has resulted from prior ignor- 
ance and misconception ; and superstition, 
sectarian affection, and prejudice, have arisen 
out of Mythology. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 433. 

MURDER. 

Murder and every other manifestation of 
insanity will die and be forgotten when man- 
kind beget harmonious children, and establish 
a system of favorable circumstances for their 
education and development.— Eth. of Conj. 
Love, p. 43. 



122 STAENOS. 

MANHOOD. 

Healthy Manhood is distinguished from 
Youth by serenity and intelligence. — Hist, 
and Phil, of Evil, p. 39. 

MELODY. 

It imparts grand melody to be in harmony 
with flies and flowers. Birds and beetles are 
nature's own productions. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, 
p. 23. 

MEDITATION. 

The more the soul dwells and meditates 
upon divine themes the more will its capacity 
be enlarged and its affections refined and 
chastened. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 373. 

MYTHOLOGY. 

The more aged a doctrine is shown to be, 
— like the mythology of hell, and evil spirits, 
and a devil, — the more we should question 
its soundness. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 142. 



STARNOS. 123 

MORALITY. 

s True morality is the living-out of your own 
ideas and sentiments of true religion. — Pene- 
tralia, p. 81. 

MUSIC. 

Music is a representation of divine Order ; 
and Order is the Wisdom of the Deity. — Nat. 
Div. Rev., p. 737. 

MISERY. 

All happiness, like all misery, results from, 
or is the effect of, conditions within and cir- 
cumstances without, — Answers to Questions, 
p. 188. 

MOTIVES. 

Streams of good and healthy motives will 
spring up to cleanse and refresh the moral 
world, on whose advancing tide the race will 
ascend to intellectual and social harmony, and 
to a high state of spiritual elevation. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 2, p. 43. 



124 STAKNOS. 

MECHANISM. 

This world is the manufactory of spirits;^ 
the store-house is the Spirit Land. — Inner 
Life, p. 394. 

MIND. 

The human mind is constituted for an eter- 
nal search after and progression in Good. — 
Fountain, p. 245. 

MEDIATOR. 

Man stands on the apex of the magnificent 
pyramid of the visible organic creation, — " a 
little lower than the angels." He is the 
pneumatic bridge over which every thing 
spiritual travels into this world. — Inner Life, 
p. 56. 



STARNOS. 125 



N. 



NOBLENESS. 

Nothing noble or heroic can be achieved 
without labors and dangers of greater or less 
magnitude. — Fountain, p. 219. 

NATURE. 

Like a gift from God thou art, — a throb 
from the Deific Heart, — a pledge from the 
Soul of Supreme Truth.— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, 
p. 288. 

NOBILITY. 

If you wish to acquire absolute strength of 
body, if you desire a clear and well-balanced 
brain, if you want a large mind and a more 
noble character, — then, Breathe, Breathe, 
Breathe "the breath of life, and become a 
living soul." — Harbinger of Health, p. 80. 



126 STARNOS. 

NOW. 

We are just as much in Eternity now — 
this very moment — as we ever will be. The 
infinite and eternal now is all we have to 
call our own.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 362. 

NATURE. 

Nature is a book whose every sentence 
proves the ascension of man from a small 
point of life ; the first productions of Nature 
are inferior to her every subsequent unfold- 
ing. — Penetralia, p. 43. 

NOBILITY. 

You should be distinguished from the 
world's inhabitants, — by your nobility ; by 
your happiness ; by your superior offspring ; 
by your high intelligence, and eloquence, and 
psychological power, — by all, in a word, 
which distinguishes the kingdom of heaven 
from the discords of earth. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 104. 



STARNOS. 127 

NOURISHMENT. - 

Vital magnetism and electricity are the 
divine elements of spiritual (not moral) 
nourishment, and are the mediums through 
which the spirit acts upon the body. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, p. 145. 

NOBLENESS. 

A man must not only know that it is wrong 
to do certain things (because of the logical 
consequences and suffering which will follow 
to himself) but he must also/eeZ that he is too 
noble, too just, too regardful of the interests 
and development of kindred, neighbor, and the 
world, to allow himself ever to sin against 
light and knowledge. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, 
p. 177. 



128 STAENOS. 



o. 

ORDER. 

Order and Form, and Love and Wisdom, 
are indicated in each created object, from the 
lowest to the highest. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, 
p. 36. 

OPPORTUNITIES. 

With pure physical development come 
" golden opportunities " to be pure, and lov- 
ing, and wise, and progressive in all things. — 
Answers to Questions, p. 212. 

OPPRESSIONS. 

It is culpable moral weakness of individual 
will — yea, it is nothing less than a wicked 
rejection of the Divine goodness — to drop 
and "give up " under the oppressions of mis- 
fortune. — Temple, p. 326. 



STARNOS. 129 

OPINIONS. 

Truthful opinions never impeach the plans 
of divine efforts ; neither do they afflict human 
souls with dismal ideas of the vast beyond. — 
Penetralia, p. 96. 

OBEDIENCE. 

The will-power of an angel is always exer- 
cised through the diamond avenues of wisdom. 
A wise will is very powerful. The passions 
of the soul must live in eternal obedience to 
this indwelling wisdom attribute. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 3, p. 219. 

ORGANIZATION. 

Man is an organization not composed of a 
mutual agreement of parts through the in- 
definite workings of an inpetuous Nature, but 
is rather the perfect form, the highest image, 
the designed organization of the divine Mind 
that pervades immensity. — Nat. Div. Rev., 
p. 351. 



130 STARKOS. 

OMNIPRESENCE. 

The divine essence is everywhere and in 
all things.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 263. 

ORGANIZATION. 

God must be himself organized before he 
can breathe forth organization. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 1, p. 48. 

OBSERVATION. 

Look into the laws of life from a purely 
honest observation of its principles and pur- 
poses, and thus harmonize with its constitu- 
tional needs and eternal ends. — Fountain, 
p. 245. 

OPPOSITION. 

The only hope for the amelioration of the 
world is free thought and unrestricted in- 
quiry. Anything which opposes or tends to 
obstruct this sublime and lofty principle is 
wrong. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 5. 



STARKOS. 131 



P. 

PURITY. 

To be pure, something besides soap and 
hot water is required. It is downright hard 
work in the character. Something besides 
very severe labor is also needed. It is cheer- 
fulness of spirit and good physical habits. — 
Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 85. 

PRAYER. 

The only prayer I would recommend is a 
practically righteous life. . . . Harmonial 
Culture not only brings out that which is in- 
trinsically constitutional, hut increases the in- 
terior power of attraction, whereby the soul 
obtains the pabulum of life, and grows exceed- 
ingly — on and on, henceforth and forever. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 57. 



132 STAKNOS. 

PRAYER. 

A profoundly grateful and loving heart is 
slow in verbal prayer and exquisitely delicate 
in professions. — Heavenly Home, p. 51. 

PERFECTNESS. 

Be instructed by the Past, and by all it has 
brought you. Be thankful for the Present, 
and for all its blessings. Be hopeful for the 
Future, and for all it promises to bring you. 
— Penetralia, p. 112. 

PURPOSES. 

A high, pure Purpose is possible only to 
spirit Ambition is earthly; aspiration is 
spiritual. . • . Pure Purpose brings the in- 
most spirit into harmony with pure Truth, 
which is eternal. There is no failure, no 
defeat, no killing disappointment in the mind 
that is exclusively moved by a high Purpose 
in its external relations to mankind. — Phil, 
of Spir. Inter., p. 353. 



STARNOS. 133 

PHILOSOPHERS. 

Only those who search for and impart the 
" truth " with a harmonial love to gain the 
Alpine summits of " wisdom," and who labor 
with the unselfish aspiration to advance man- 
kind in virtue and happiness, are worthy of 
the honorable title of Philosopher. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 270. 

PRINCIPLES. 
Truth, Love, Justice, Beauty, Liberty, 
Growth,- — these are principles, and also the * 
fruition of principles, which would overcome 
all evil, and fill the world with brotherhood, 
joy, peace, happiness. — Beyond the Valley, 
p. 257. 

Great thoughts, true feelings, high truths, 
innate ideas, immortal principles, — these 
come, and these abide; they multiply and 
exalt all existences, and they carry us all in 
their bosoms, or take us by the hand, and go 
on forever. — Beyond the Valley, p. 58. 



134 STARNOS. 

PHENOMENA. 

The Cause of phenomena is self-intelligent, 
self-loving, self-rewarded, absolute, unchange- 
able. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 85. 

PROGRESSION. 

Ignorance is the diabolical monster of the 
human mind, and selfishness is the " roaring 
lion " that goes up and down the earth, seek- 
ing whom it may " devour." Progression is 
the angel of our deliverance. — Harbinger of 
Health, p. 420. 

PLAYFULNESS. 

The human face is provided with thousands 
of nerves and fibres naturally responsive to 
playfulness, wit, and feelings of mirthfulness, 
while there are exceedingly few provisions 
made by Providence for expressing grief, 
melancholy, and other bilious affections. The 
good and pure, in all worlds and spheres, are 
gay and playful. — Temple, p. 443. 



STARNOS. 135 

POWER. 

One profound student of nature will put to 
flight ten thousand priests whose only strength 
consists in their ecclesiastical organizations, 
and in the superstitious ignorance of their 
devotees. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 16. 

PRAYER. 

True prayer, oral or silent, is born of the 
bosom, not of the brain. — Fountain, p. 180. 

True prayer is the glowing and graceful 
expression of the virgin imagination, warmed 
and fed by spiritual passion and devout medi- 
tation. — Fountain, p. 185. 

Prayer is sometimes a key by which the 
golden door of infinite opportunities may be 
unlocked ; and, sometimes, prayer calls to 
our immediate aid those wise and strong 
guardians who daily live in harmony with the 
eternal currents of affection. — Fountain, p. 
220. 



136 STAKNDS. 

PROGRESSION. 

The Soul knows no retrogression, neither 
maturity. It is destined for eternal progres- 
sion, and for the unbroken enjoyment of an 
immortal youth. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 65. 

POWER. 

When the spirits' power rises up from its 
inmost, — when it expands above force and 
war, both private and public,— it sees itself 
to be " a conqueror " in the midst of its ma- 
terial surroundings. — Arabula, p. 384. 

POPULARITY. 

If men loved Truth more than the honey- 
comb of Popularity, — worshipped Principle 
more than the gold which devotion to fash- 
ionable " vital Piety " brings them, — then, 
indeed, would come the good time — the Pla- 
tonic Era — when Truth and Peace, Law and 
Liberty, shall reign supreme. — Inner Life, 
p. 61. 



STARNOS. 137 

POWER. 

If we would learn of the dignity and power 
of humanity, we must study " The Individ- 
ual." — Inner Life, p. 42. 

PERFECTION. 

The more perfect your intuition of princi- 
ples the nearer you are to the heart and soul 
of things. — Heavenly Home, p. 147. 

PHILOSOPHY. 

The Harmonial Philosophy ... is a reve- 
lation of the Natural, Spiritual, and Celestial 
departments of God's Universal Temple. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 104. 

PRAYER. 

True spirit-prayer, Hke the glory of morn- 
ing dew, ascends noiselessly. The answer? 
that comes, welcome as the fall of rain, when 
the soul most needs nutrition. — Penetralia, 
p. 78. 



138 STAKNOS. 

PASSIONS. 

Passionate emotions are fleeting. They 
are heaven's lightning flash. ... As the flash 
of lightning is to the ever-shining sun, so is 
the fire of passion to the serene love of the 
spirit. — Beyond the Valley, p. 378. 

PREJUDICES. 

Men should not cherish prejudices against 
each other, so long as the sun shines to bless 
the earth and all men, and while the laws of 
Nature are unchangeable and ever impartial 
in their displays. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 718. 

PURIFICATION. 

The calm, pure heavens are peopled with 
hosts of strong powers whose great sympa- 
thetic hearts beat, through all the interven- 
ing space, responsive to our every soul-born 
prayer for purification and righteousness. . . 
Every such prayer is some day answered. — 
Magic Staff, p. 135. 



STABJTOS. 139 

PHYSICIANS. 

Nature, intuition, and circumstances are 
ever the best physicians. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, 

p. 272. 

PURPOSES. 

Every mind intuitively recognizes the eter- 
nal value of pure purposes. — Death and After 
Life, p. 82. 

PREJUDICES. 

Unless we can cast off the prejudices of the 
man and become as children, docile and un- 
perverted, we need never hope to enter the 
temple of philosophy. — Stellar Key, p. 92. 

PRINCIPLES. 

The word of God is composed of Love, 
Justice, Truth, Wisdom, and Liberty. Prin- 
ciples, wherever you find them, whether in 
religion or out of it, are infallible and imper- 
ishable words of God. — Thoughts on Relig- 
ion, p. 183. 



140 STABNOS. 

PRAYERS. 

The best prayers are those which tend to 
the overcoming evil with good. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 379. 

PERSONALITIES. 

The inability to rise superior to personali- 
ties is one of the most deplorable weaknesses 
of our undevelopment. — Beyond the Valley, 
p. 394. 

PUNISHMENTS. 

Anything that produces discord in the 
physical, or social, or moral systems of our 
being will cause us to suffer a physical, social, 
or moral punishment. — Phil, of Spec. Provi- 
dences, p. 68. 

PERFECTION. 

The mind must be refined and perfected, 
and when this is properly accomplished the 
social world will be correspondingly elevated, 
and thus be advanced to honor, goodness, and 
Universal Peace, — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 677. 



STARNOS. 141 

PKEDISPOSITION. 

Every human soul has an intrinsic predis- 
position to goodness, to harmony, and to 
spiritual illumination. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, 
p. 209. 

PURITY. 

He is spiritually-minded who considers 
absolute purity of heart and life to be the 
richest of human possession. — Penetralia, 
p. 105. 

PEACE. 

When you attain to " inward peace " you 
are born again. Then you can live a spon- 
taneous, easy, free, orderly, happy life. — 
Free Thoughts, p. 149. 

PROOFS. 

There is an abundance of proof that the 
dwellers of the other life are in daily commu- 
nication with minds of persons who yet in- 
habit the temple of clay. — Inner Life, p. 312. 



142 STABNOS. 

PRINCIPLES. 

Principles are everywhere operative intel- 
ligences. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 61. 

POWER. 

Use informs of Utility ; Justice informs of 
Right ; and Power executes their united De- 
signs. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 151. 

PEACE. 
He who can carry about, in the unseen 
chambers of his heart, a disposition to make 
peace on earth and good will toward man is 
already in the kingdom of peace. — - Gt. Har. 
Yol. 3, p. 360. 

PROPHECIES. 
Human efforts toward a true knowledge of 
life and its laws are in reality just so many 
prophecies of the discoveries of truth, which 
will ultimately triumph, and crown humanity, 
and finally save the world.— Temple, p. 57. 



STARNOS. 143 

POWER. 

Power, which is always from spirit, is 
never conquered. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, 
p. 200. 

PLANETS. 

A planet is one of Nature's significant 
beads on the endless rosary, which consists of 
countless decades of orbs. — Answers to Ques- 
tions, p. 27. 

PHILOSOPHY. 

Harmonial Philosophy teaches that self- 
possession — true self-ownership — is one of 
the paths leading to the shortest road to the 
kingdom of heaven. — Free Thoughts, p. 168. 

PUNISHMENT. 

It is philosophically impossible for punish- 
ment to be interminable. The endless dura- 
tion of punishment would utterly destroy the 
purposes of punishment. — Answers to Ques- 
tions, p. 209. 



144 STABNOS. 

PRINCIPLES. 

Principles are both omnipresent and im- 
personal. — Stellar Key, p. 157. 

PREJUDICE. 

All prejudice is bigotry, and thoughtless 
repudiation is foolishness. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 220. 

PERFECTION. 

Perfection and truthfulness of mind are the 
secret intentions of Nature. — Eth. of Conj. 
Love, p. 132. 

PROGRESSION. 

Progression is the path of deliverance, and 
blessed is he who walketh in it. — Answers 
to Questions, p. 185. 

PERCEPTION. 

The true preacher can see "sermons in 
stones." The good man sees " good in every- 
thing."— Inner Life, p. 393. 



STAR^OS. 145 

POWER. 

Weakness is mortal, a disease ; power is 
immortal, being perfect health. — Beyond the 
Valley, p. 387. 

PROGRESS. 

Progress is a law of Nature. To resist the 
perpetual tendencies of this law is to resist 
the sublime workings of the universe. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, p. 213. 

PURITY. 

Conceptions of purity and refinement are 
enlarged in proportion to the knowledge one 
possesses of what is impure and unrefined, — 
Nat. Div. Rev., p. 200. 

PIETY. 

True piety 'is a consciousness and confession 
of the sentiment of religion ; true morality is 
the intentional application of that sentiment 
to the affairs of life. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 
209. 



146 STARNOS. 

PRODUCTION. 

Spirit will produce spirit as a flower will 
produce a flower. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 246. 

PURSUITS. 

It is wrong to devote the present life, which 
is but the beginning of existence, to insignifi- 
cant and inglorious pursuits. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 1, p. 434. 

PERSONALITIES. 

Man is the being, above all other person- 
alities, to whom the heavenly Father turns 
in order to be progressively comprehended. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 141." 



STARNOS. 147 



Q. 

QUALITIES. 

It is not the quantity but the quality of 
truth which makes us free. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, 
p. 177. 

QUIETUDE. 

You can hear the voice of intuition only 
when you are tranquil. — Beyond the Valley, 
p. 365. 

QUARRELS. 

Local quarrels and conflicts are blemishes 
that affect, society as ulcers affect the diseased 
body. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 695. 

QUERY. 

When will our brave-hearted and inspired 
favorites ascend to the heights of infallible 
Reason in matters of righteousness and eter- 
nity ? — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 117. 



148 STARNOS. 

QUIETNESS. 

Quietness of mind is essential to interior 
light.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 210. 

QUANTITY. 

All souls begin with identical qualities, but 
not with identical quantities, of the life prin- 
ciples. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 50. 

QUALITIES. 

By quality and by quantity men are less 
or more in contact with the divine principles 
that regulate the spiritual universe. — Hist, 
and Phil, of Evil, p. 173. 



R. 

REASON. 

Reason is the exponent of truth to the in- 
tellect ; even as intuition is truth's exponent 
to the affections. — Fountain, p. 231. 



STARNOS. 149 

RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

All truthful-mindedness is beautiful right- 
eousness. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 275. 

EEVEALMENT. 

The height, length, breadth, and depth of 
true religion are revealed and fulfilled in the 
union of man with the love, justice, power, 
and beauty of Omniscient goodness. — Arab- 
ula, p. 101. 

REASON. 

We behold the temple of the Infinite as one 
great system of unity and truth. And reason, 
not insanity, is the medium whereby we first 
comprehend, and then adore. — Inner Life, 
p. 391. 

Reason is the mirror which, when untar- 
nished by ignorance or undeformed by error, 
reflects the form and likeness of truth, natur- 
ally as the placid lake images forth the 
firmament. — Inner Life, p. 45. 



150 STAKNOS. 

REFINEMENT. 

Strict adherence to rules of physical and 
mental discipline will always refine the feel- 
ings and elevate the mind. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, 
p. 210. 

RETARDATION. 

Every pure and innate quality of the hu- 
man soul is arrested in its growth, because 
society smiles not on its tenderness, nourishes 
not its roots, and assists not, by superior cir- 
cumstances, its growth. — Nat. Div. Rev., 
p. 688. 

REALITIES. 

Motion, Life, Sensation, and Intelligence 
are elements as substantially real as Fire, 
Heat, Light, and Electricity. Mind is as 
much a substance as matter, only not so far 
down in the scale. . . . The law of mind and 
the law of matter is one ; and souls and stars 
are moved and regulated by the same great 
general principle. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 279. 



STARNOS. 151 

REVELATION. 

Nature, reason, and intuition are the only 
infallible mediums of revelation, — the only 
church, creed, and religion natural to the mind 
of man. — Inner Life, p. 46. 

REFORM. 

Reform is kindred with sunlight, kindred 
with trees, with the flow of ocean, and the 
tide of time ; and will grow naturally, as 
flowers come out of the ground, and as moun- 
tains rise out of the sea. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, 
p. 24. 

RELIGION. 

The only true Religion is that which em- 
braces the universe, reveals perfect justice, 
breathes boundless goodness, fills the rea- 
son with light, the affections with love, the 
sorrowing with consolation, the down-trodden 
with courage, and the despairing with the 
golden beams of eternal hope. — Heavenly 
Home, p. 205. 



152 STAKNOS. 

EEFINEMENT. 

All matter is perpetually on the way to 
spiritual association. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 
184. 

EECEPTIVITY. 

Those immutable laws which govern the 
pulsations of divine vitality through the uni- 
verse are so minute and righteous that the 
tiny flower and revolving orb alike receive 
life, direction, and protection according to 
their respective capacities and requirements. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 282. 

REASON. 

Have a good and benevolent reason for 
everything you do. Never act from a nar- 
row, selfish impulse. Be loving and tender- 
hearted. . . . Never do wrong. For there 
are thousands of pure and loving angels look- 
ing upon us, desiring our speedy deliverance 
from discord and error. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 230. 



STAKNOS. 153 

RESISTANCE. 

To resist the law of eternal Growth is to 
resist the plainest law of the universe. — Inner 
Life, p. 41. 

RELIGION. 

To willing minds the Infinite always speaks. 
Boundless Justice is the highest manifestation 
of true religion. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, 
p. 93. 

REQUIREMENTS. 

All things receive the Spirit of God, and 
bathe in it, and express it in the external in 
exact proportion to their capacity and absolute 
requirements. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 303. 

REGENERATION. 
" Regeneration " is a perpetual phenome- 
non of existence ; the result of no miraculous 
"change of heart," — a perennial growth in 
Love and Wisdom. — Hist, and Phil, of Evil, 
p. 92. 



154 STAKNOS. 

RELIGION. 

True religion injustice, and joy, and peace, 
and beauty. — Approaching Crisis, p. 106. 

REASON. 

As Reason exalts man above, so the lack 
of it degrades him beneath, the animal con- 
sciousness. — Temple, p. 10. 

REFORM. 

The fire of dispassionate Reason will purify 
the hell of all past deeds. . . . Every soul is 
required to place some fuel under the distill- 
ing crucible. . . . Bring fuel to the fire of 
reform, therefore, and work to burn up your 
own evils. Set your alcohol on fire. De- 
stroy all your noxious weeds of vice. Let 
the furnace of private redemption burn hotter 
and hotter until every personal discord is 
consumed. Fix your whole heart firmly upon 
what your higher faculties admire, and do 
their bidding. — Harbinger of Health, p. 118. 



STARNOS. 155 

RELIGION. 

In the harmonial age, true religion is uni* 
ver sal justice. Everything will be attuned to 
the laws of equity and reciprocation. — Hist, 
and Phil, of Evil, p. 86. 

REASON. 

If there was ever a flower from the soil of 
heaven planted in the garden of the human 
soul, blooming with an ever-increasing beauty 
and with an eternal fragrance, it is Reason. — 
Thoughts on Religion, p. 79. 

RESPONSIBILITY. 

In the honest pursuit of truth each mind 
must employ its own immortal reason, arrive 
conscientiously and thoughtfully at its own 
conclusions, and be prepared not only to "give 
a reason for the hope within," but also to 
accept that regal responsibility which is in- 
separable from personality and conduct. — 
Temple, p. 229. 



156 STARNOS. 

RELIGION. 

Justice and truth generate happiness, the 
native religion of the soul. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, 
p. 67. 

REASON. 

Reason is the full-blown flower of the spirit; 
its fragrance is Love and knowledge. — Pene- 
tralia, p. 240. 

REFORM. 

The Principle of Love is the great lever 
of reformation. Fear is certain to subject 
and paralyze the soul, but Love draws the 
soul above. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 355. 

RESPONSIBILITY. 

The effect of too much reliance upon the 
invisible for aid is to beget weak-mindedness 
and unfitness for any great work ; no man 
can accomplish much who doubts his personal 
capabilities and shirks individual responsi- 
bility. — Penetralia, p. 77. 



STAKNOS. 157 

REFORM. 

Thanks to the Supreme Power of the uni- 
verse, the law of reform works unchangeably 
onward. — Thoughts on Religion, p. 7. 

REASON. 

Reason, on the wings of faith and justice, 
is a bird of paradise. Its flight is outward, 
onward, upward. — Thoughts on Religion, 
p. 21. 

RITUALS. 

A religion of forms, of ceremonies, of 
rituals, is not the religion of manhood. Men 
need a religion which, when defined, means 
Universal Justice. — Penetralia, p. 406. 

REFORMATION. 

Do we yearn for love, let us be loving ; do 
we yearn for reformation, let us be reformed ; 
do we yearn to free mankind from discord 
and wrong, let us be free. — Har. Man, p. 151. 



158 STARKOS. 

RESPONSIBILITY. 

The human individual's responsibility is 
commensurate with, or in proportion to, the 
mind's power to conceive of justice and free- 
dom. — Answers to questions, p. 206. 

REALIZATION. 

Whether your parentage be Caucasian or 
African, Mongolian or Indian, Celtic or Teu- 
tonic, it is all the same. Nature will do her 
work, and you will experience at last a com- 
plete realization of her original Ideas. — 
Penetralia, p. 422. 

REPENTANCE. 

Repentance unto life is a resolution taken 
in your wisdom faculties, renouncing a per- 
sonal evil habit before the whole angel-world, 
whose aid you invoke, — a resolution carried 
out, practically, in every subsequent act of 
your life. — Answers to Questions, p. 153. 



STARNOS. 159 

REPUTATION. 

Reputation is but a brush-heap at best. A 
few flashes of fire from falsehood's forked 
tongue would destroy it root and branch. — 
Magic Staff, p. 526. 



SPEECH. 

The speech of spirits drops upon the inter- 
nal tympanum like music over the sea. The 
words are distinct as bugle notes, but they 
affect the mind as childhood's kisses do the 
lips, leaving a sweet presence and benefaction 
behind them. . . . The voice of a spirit is 
like the spirit of truth, — most eloquent when 
manifested in deeds, — for thus the higher 
intelligences communicate their thoughts to 
those beneath them. — Answers to Questions, 
p. 72. 



160 STARNOS. 

SPIRIT. 

Spirit is an indissoluble unity of the finest 
particles of matter. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 

248. 

STANDARD. 

Self is the eternal standard of conscious- 
ness, — the portal through which the soul 
looks into the far off. — Inner Life, p. 411. 

SOUL. 

The soul knows no retrogression ; neither 
maturity. It is destined for eternal progres- 
sion, — for the unbroken enjoyment of an 
immortal youth. — Inner Life, p. 411. 

SEPULCHRES. 

The true Spiritualist sees that there is no 
sepulchre, no tomb ; . . . that death is noth- 
ing but a gentle "defeat" which excludes 
the cypress and includes the laurel. — Phil, 
of Spir. Inter., p. 345. 



STARNOS. 161 

STANDARD. 

Eternal truth, as it is revealed through the 
beautiful mediums of love and Justice, is the 
only everlasting standard. — Fountain, p. 231. 

SEQUENCES. 

We make (or have made by the confluence 
of external circumstances for us) our heaven 
and our hell as we journey forward; they 
come not as arbitrary rewards and punish- 
ments, but as inevitable sequences to right and 
wrong doing. — Penetralia, p. 224. 

SPHERES. 

As a tree spreadeth its branches over the 
weary traveller, and delighteth his sense with 
sweet perfume, even while he smiteth it to 
obtain its fruit, so do the angelic spheres — 
the spirit-worlds — spread themselves over 
earth's inhabitants, yielding them, in the still 
hours of life's repose, joy and holy inspiration. 
— Phil, of Spir. Inter., p. 265. 



162 STARNOS. 

SUPREMACY. 

A natural intuition of religious truth gives 
all a love of moral supremacy. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 5, p. 161. 

SALVATION. 

We must work out " our own salvation " 
from the causes of unhappiness. The angels 
will help us just in proportion as we help 
ourselves. — Harbinger of Health, p. 420. 

SPIRIT. 

The spirit, in consequence of its outer or- 
ganization, can never be lost or dissipated in 
any of the great cycles of the ever-changing 
universe. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 407. 

The spirit itself is inmost and is intimately 
allied to the perfect and supreme. It could 
not be created ; it could not be destroyed. It 
never had a miraculous beginning; it will 
never experience a miraculous end. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 5, p. 401. 



STARNOS. 163 

SPIRIT. 

The spirit is the wine procured from the 
vintage of the universe. It is obtained from 
the ultimate ethers of all elements combined. 

— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 63. 

STRENGTH. 

It is sublime strength and wisdom to allow 
the principle, " overcome evil with good," to 
flow up from within and over all one's rela- 
tions to his fellowmen. . . . All principles 
are innate, and will grow powerful in due 
season. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 93. 

SPLENDOR. 
A silent splendor floats down from the 
noon-day sun and illuminates the hills. Star- 
beams come down from on high and play 
amid the lilies of the valley. There is a glow 
and a loveliness — a poem and a song — 
upon, and flowing from, every thing that lives. 

— Inner Life, p. 13. 



164 STAENOS. 

SPIRITUALIZATION. 

The spiritual body is " matter " spiritual* 
ized, as the flower is the earth refined. — • 
Inner Life, p. 55. 

SORROWS. 

Just above a sharp thorn the bud bursts 
open, and a flower unfolds. So every sorrow 
embosoms a joy, — every grief is accompanied 
by some beneficent provision to mitigate its 
intensity, and secure a good result. — Ap- 
proaching Crisis, p. 150. 

SLEEP. 

It is the Soul and not the body which 
experiences exhaustion and requires sleep. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 151. 

Sleep is only a mode by which the fatigued 
soul partially withdraws itself from the phys- 
ical structure, and gathers inwardly for the 
purpose of self-recuperation. — Gt. Har. Vol. 
1, p. 151. 



STARNOS. 165 

SUBJECTIVITY. 

If the mind would grow and expand from 
its own roots and vitality, its possessor must 
cultivate subjectivity of feeling and thinking. 
— Beyond the Valley, p. 318. 

SOURCES. 

There are but four general sources of 
thought and knowledge, namely, — the life- 
springs of the soul ; the suggestions of exter- 
nal nature ; the well-springs of humanity ; 
and the exhaustless fountains of the spiritual 
universe.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 303. 

SUBLIMITY. 

How glorious and exalting to experience, 
in common with the manifold creations of 
nature, the sublime presence of the Great 
Spirit; how elevating to feel our souls be- 
gemmed and constantly spiritualized by the 
mellow, glowing light of numberless firma- 
ments ! — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 280. 



166 STABNOS. 

SYMPATHY. 

It is highly essential to our happiness and 
development that we allow our souls to grow 
into the religion of a universal sympathy. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 109. 

SIN. 
Sin, in the common acceptation of that 
term, does not really exist ; but what is called 
sin is merely a misdirection of man's physical 
and spiritual powers, which generates un- 
happy consequences. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 521. 

SPIRITUALIZATION. 

Spiritualization is the high inflowing flood- 
tide of the Divine life unto humanity; but 
"materialization" is the subsidence, — the 
backward and downward drift of the sea; 
and, lo ! the shores thereof will be strewn 
with multitudinous wrecks, — doubters, agnos- 
tics, cynics, hermits, haters, heathen. — Be- 
yond the Yalley, p. 330. 



STARNOS. 167 

SPIEIT. 

The human spirit is the focal organism of 
Nature. — Inner Life, p. 54. 

SCIENCE. 

Science is a sure safe-guard against super- 
stition. — Fountain, p. 231. 

SECTARIANISM. 

It is with you and your convictions to 
decide whether a sectarian bondage shall op- 
press the free-born mind, or whether knowl- 
edge and universal happiness shall bless the 
earth. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 707. 

SINCERITY. 

A True word, although sown in weedy 
soil, will eventually be fruitful of its own 
seed ; even so will a true life, if lived in down- 
right sincerity, overcome disease and all hard- 
ships, even old death itself. — Beyond the 
Valley, p. 167. 



168 STARNOS. 

SUNDAY. 

It is right to live every day as correctly as 
on Sunday.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 338. 

SILENCE. 

True silence is the handmaid of meditation ; 
she is a good and faithful friend to him who 
prays in secret. — Penetralia, p. 108. 

SIN. 

Sin is a name for excess, — a mark missed 

by man in his development; a ditch into 

which, when with ignorance or passion blind, 

we stumble for a season. — Penetralia, p. 43. 

STRENGTH. 

Pure spirit is above the reach of tempta- 
tion. Moral strength to overcome or to resist 
evil is the promise of the future angel. It is, 
in fact, the basis on which the angel-character 
is finally erected. — Thoughts on Religion, 
p. 210. 



STARNOS. 169 

SUPERSTITION. 

The changing and inclement skies of super- 
stition entail distress and wretchedness upon 
human nature. — Fountain, p. 240. 

SELFISHNESS. 

Live selfishly for yourself and you will sit 
down at the end of life dissatisfied with human 
existence. — Phil, of Spir. Inter., p. 360. 

SIGHT. 

The physical eye can only see physical 
things, while the spiritual eye can behold both 
spiritual and physical things. — Stellar Key, 
p. 135. 

SPIRIT. 

The spirit will progress eternally. . . . 
Let us, then, live justly, truly, and purely; 
because by so doing our position will be com- 
manding and glorious in those numberless 
spheres where the spirit will reside. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 2, p. 254. 



170 STARNOS. 

SPLENDORS. 

Dull minds sleep behind dull senses ; but 
star-eyed persons possess minds shining full 
of heavenly splendors. — Stellar Key, p. 19. 

SUFFERINGS. 

Sufferings are blessings, — the evidences of 
Nature's justice, the careful baptism of deific 
love eternal.— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 383. 

SUBLIMITY. 

This great natural universe in all its sub- 
limity is nothing when compared with the 
essential properties and immortal capacities 
of man's spirit. — Hist* and Phil, of -Evil, 
p. 217. 

SELFISHNESS. 

Do good from a selfish motive, and you 
will find a chemical poison at the very heart, 
which will leave your nature as poor as a 
miser is with his full coffers. — Death and 
After Life, p. 170. 



STABNOS. 171 

SPIRITUALISM. 

Spiritualism is useful as a living demonstra- 
tion of a future existence. It abundantly 
proves this ; but nothing else with certainty. 
— Magic Staff, p. 544. 

SINNERS. 

The sinner deserves the love and blessing 
of God ineffably more than the self-sustaining 
and well-developed ; for the wise and happy 
need not a physician, but those only who are 
sick and unfortunate. — Penetralia, p. 73. 

SPONTANEITY. 

All true inspiration must be spontaneous ; 
it must spring from the deep foundations of 
Nature, and seek an expression through the 
human soul and tongue, as the ten thousand 
rivulets, starting from the pregnant side of 
stupendous mountains, converge and mingle 
in the distant valley, and form the mighty 
ocean. — Phil, of Spir. Inter., p. 247. 



172 STARNOS. 

SHEPHERDS. 

The pure eternal Truth is man's only true 
shepherd. It is the diamond jewel which 
only God's life can make palpable to the 
deepest intuitions. — Beyond the Valley, p. 
327. 

SCENES. 

I behold the spiritual sphere as containing 
all the beauties of the natural sphere com- 
bined and perfected. . . . Every earth is of 
itself an index and an introduction to the 
beauty and grandeur that are existing in the 
Second Sphere. . . . The extended surface of 
this Sphere, I perceive, presents regular and 
gentle undulations, which render the whole 
diversified and exceedingly inviting. Very 
extensive plains are presented, which are 
clothed with great fertility, and with innu- 
merable varieties of forms such as deck the 
bosom of the earth when all things are favor- 
able to a thrifty production. — Nat. Div. Rev., 
p. 653. 



stabjstos. 173 

SKEPTICISM. 

Knowledge is a constitutional skeptic ; Wis- 
dom is a believer ; Love is a worshipper. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 4, p. 34. 

SECRETS. 

You will find the scientific secrets of im- 
mortality concealed behind the underworking 
laws of Nature.— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 384. 

SPIRITUALIZATION. 

That mind is most expanded and spiritual- 
ized in his thoughts and feelings who sees 
"God in every thing.'' — Answers to Ques- 
tions, p. 181. 

SOCIETIES. 

Societies in the Second Sphere are very 
much to be admired, because of the perfect 
harmony which pervades them, and the per- 
fect melody and concert of rudimental and 
perfected knowledge which they manifest. — 
Nat. Div. Rev., p. 650. 



174 STABNOS. 

SELFISHNESS. 
We must die to selfishness. We must for- 
get self on the lower plane of being if we 
would be happy. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 360. 

SOCIETY. 

Societary Harmony is an effect of Individ- 
ual Harmony. Individual Harmony is an 
effect of spirit growth in Love, Wisdom, and 
Liberty. — Beyond the Valley, p. 400. 

SCRIPTURES. 

There are no scriptures more plain, more 
sacred, more infallible, than the laws of life, 
of health, and of a progressive experience.— 
Inner Life, p. 401. 

SYMPATHY. 

Sympathy is compounded of healing love, 
mercy, and benevolence ; while false charity 
is a popular mixture containing equal parts 
of impulsive pity, heartless duty, and cold 
contempt. — Temple, p. 412. 



STARNOS. 175 

STRIFE. 

The " Heavenly KiDgdom " comes in every 
man's soul when he outgrows strife, selfish- 
ness, and passion, and steps upon the high 
table-land of peace, charity, and Wisdom. — 
Answers to Questions, p. 170. 

SUPERSTITION. 

Knowledge leads us progressively to the 
summits of immensity, — to the mounts of 
truth. Ignorance leads into the vales of 
superstition, — into the deepest pandemonium 
of doubt and gloom. — Inner Life, p. 42. 

SOCIETIES. 

It is pleasing to behold heavenly societies. 
I see them at this moment existing in the 
most perfect degree of brotherly love, and 
joined inseparably together by constant as- 
cending and descending affections. — Nat. Div. 
Rev., p. 652. 



176 STAKNOS. 

SABBATH. 

He is the worst Sabbath-breaker who can- 
not give some portion of every day to com- 
munion with the interior and spiritual. — Tem- 
ple, p. 434. 

SOMNAMBULISM. 

Somnambulism is the first demonstration 
of the independence of the soul. It is clair- 
voyance undeveloped. — Gt. Har. Vol. 3, 
p. 241. 

SUPERNATURALISM. 

Human nature is not supernatural, but con- 
tinues to be human, — outgrowing its errors 
either slowly or rapidly, in keeping with 
motives and temperaments. — Death and After 
Life, p. 61. 

SPHERES. 

The finest particles of all things, not ab- 
sorbed by this world, go to form a spiritual 
globe. Like a zone on the inside of the vast 
Milky- Way is unfolded the Second Sphere. 
— Penetralia, p. 255. 



STAKtfOS. 177 



T. 

TRUTH. 

Truth is one vast Mountain, lifting its head 
with exalted dignity. It stands unmoved, and 
will not bow to the caprices of man ; yet man 
will progress until he reaches its very heights. 
— Nat. Div. Rev., p. 19. 

TRANQUILITY. 

The twilight hour is the period for tran- 
quility and religious contemplations. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 2, p. 313. 

When the heavens are tranquil and the 
vesper star is seen above the clouds, . . . then 
the mind sees burning thoughts and words so 
eagle-like that it cannot but be exalted and 
serene.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 312. 



178 STAKNOS. 

THOUGHTS. 

In great and good minds all thoughts are 
harmonious and meek ; but the thoughts of 
small minds fret and strut like puppets in a 
show-man's box. — Penetralia, p. 10. 

TRANQUILITY. 

All spiritual tranquility is founded upon 
immortal realities. Loveliest and holiest 
moments are those which lift our souls as the 
sun and moon lift the waves of the great seas. 

— Beyond the Valley, p. 385. 

TRUTH. 

Whatsoever a man discovers in the eternal 
universe, it is but a reflection and correspond- 
ence of that which, germinally, lives within 
him, thus demonstrating that truth is that 
Principle in the presence of which nature, 
reason, and intuition harmonize and agree, 
and rejoice together as loving angels of God. 

— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 32. 



STARNOS. 179 

THOUGHT. 

The influence of pure thought is like the 
breath of heaven upon flowers ; while low 
thoughts fall like the vapors of pestilence. 
They blast the beautiful like shafts of light- 
ning. — Answers to Questions, p. 97. 

TRUTH. 

That mind which loves truth more than 
any other thing is clothed in the Armor of 
Heaven ; and that mind which comprehends 
truth is intimately allied to God, being well 
nigh omnipotent. — Inner Life, p. 42. 

TEMPERANCE. 

All excess is vicious. He who wishes to 
bless himself, the world by example, and 
posterity by the transmission of healthy quali- 
ties and noble characteristics, should be tem- 
perate in all things. The luxury of health 
is superior to the luxury of any habit. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 4, p. 153. 



180 STAKNOS. 

THOUGHT. 

Earth can forge no chains whereby to fettep 
human thought. — Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 255. 

TEMPERANCE. 

Temperance in all things is the onjy 
"straight and narrow way" that leads to the 
heaven of mental happiness. — Gt. Har. Vol. 
2, p. 326. 

TRUTH. 

Churches, sects, creeds, — what atoms they 
appear! How immense is God, — rather, I 
would say, how omnipresent and omnipotent 
is intelligent and loving truth. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 4, p. 287. 

THINKERS. 

A whole mind is in tune with Nature ; a 
harmonious mind is in tune with Reason; a 
spiritual mind is in tune with Intuition ; and 
such, in the true definition, is a harmonial 
Thinker.— Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 32. 



STABNOS. 181 

TRUTH. 

Truth is exactitude and completeness of 
representation. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 183. 

TIDES. 

The tides of Truth will continue to rise 
higher and higher, and will increase in 
strength and majesty as they roll forward. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 149. 

THOUGHTS. 

Thoughts are but Ideas in motion, and they 
differ from the essence which is moved as 
much and widely as waves differ from the 
water beneath them. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 62. 

TEMPERANCE. 

" Temperance in all things " giveth into 
man's possession the whole universe, whereby 
his soul is saved and not lost. The healthy 
soul enjoyeth all things. — Gt. Har, Vol. 5, 
p. 112. 



182 STARNOS. 

TRUTH. 

Truth is the golden door of entrance to the 
human heart. — Answers to Questions, p. 10. 

THOUGHT. 

The swinging censer of Thought flings fra- 
grant fertilizations upon every intellect. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 5, p. 200. 

TIME. 

Time wasteth the blackest body of error, 
as rain dissolveth the hardest stratum of 
granite ; but the spirit of truth, like the sun 
of heaven, is positive and imperishable, — 
Answers to Questions, p. 370. 

TOMORROW. 

Your progress and future happiness depend 
wholly upon the use you make of the eternal 
Now. . . . We must be right in heart and 
head today in order to secure a happy tomor- 
row,— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 362. 



STARNOS. 183 

TRUTHS. 

Truths that are unsought, or sought for 
their own sake, are pure and elevating to the 
aspiring soul. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 240. 

THOUGHTS. 

The Laws of Nature, which are God's 
Thoughts, never cease to guide, guard, pro- 
tect, and exercise justice. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, 
p. 145. 

TYPES. 

If you desire mental improvement, then 
improve jour mental types and symbols. 
Obtain a knowledge of good works and deeds, 
as tools, with which to think. — Penetralia, 
p. 442. 

TESTIMONY. 

Beware of superficial testimony, external 
appearances, visible, tangible, sensuous evi- 
dences, because such are invariably liable to 
deceive, and are ofttimes unrighteous. — Nat. 
Div. Rev., p. 529. 



184 STARNOS. 

TEMPTATION. 

The light of truth will always guide the 
willing, faithful soul through every tempta- 
tion. — Eth. of Conj. Love, p. 133. 

THINKERS. 

The true thinker is always enabled to see 
that a mail's God is the largest statement of 
the man himself, — Answers to Questions, 
p. 19. 

TRUTH. 

With the free, heaven-bound soul the truth 
is precious wherever found, . . . and perfect 
love for truth casteth out all fear of error. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 396. 

TONES. 

Tones which vibrate within, upon the spir- 
its' living chords, are echoed throughout the 
spirits' habitation. There is a mighty power 
in sound to soothe or to disturb. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 1, p. 82. 



stakstos. 185 

TIME. 

Time is a fine comb, and Progress is the 
strong iron hand that grasps it, — drawing it 
through all parts of the head of humanity ; 
and it will comb it clean ! — Thoughts on 
Religion, p. 615. 

THEOLOGIANS. 

In order that a man may be properly 
termed a theologian, he should take his text 
in the universal book of Nature ; and his 
sanctuary should be the expanded earth and 
the unfolded heavens. — Nat. Div. Rev., p. 
507. 

TEMPLE. 

We have only as yet entered the vestibule 
that introduces the mind into the great Tem- 
ple of divine Truth, whose foundation is in 
the depths of the universe, whose immensity 
fills all space, and whose aspiring domes are 
lost in the heights of infinity. — Nat. Div. 
Rev., p. 665. 



186 STARKOS. 

TEMrTATION. 

A man must feel, as well as know, that it 
is wrong to commit certain crimes before he 
experiences the ability to withstand tempta- 
tion.— Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 173. 

TRUTHFULNESS. 

So far as one's self-hood is involved, it 
is of the holiest importance that the idea 
"absolute truthfulness " should be the sole 
effort and perpetual prayer. — Gt. Har. Vol. 
5, p. 109. 



u. 



UNITY. 

The sea is not more true to its tide than is 
human life to the spirit of God. The crash 
and the blast of battle, like the song and 
dance of joy, are in harmony with the Infinite 
life. — Answers to Questions, p. 369. 



STAKNOS. 187 

USE. 

The ultimate Use of Nature is to individu- 
alize and immortalize the human spiritual 
principle. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 20. 

UNSELFISHNESS. 

Live to make others better, and you will 
make yourself rounder, sweeter, more effect- 
ive in all you do, . . . and a beautiful warmth 
will pervade your home, . . . and noble beings 
will associate with you wherever you mingle 
wisely and lovingly with your fellowmen. — 
Phil, of Spir. Inter., p. 360. 

UNFOLDMENT. 

Just in proportion as we unfold the sensi- 
bilities of our minds, and arrange all the dis- 
cordant elements of our being into a musically 
harmonious order, will the joy, and light, and 
wisdom of the higher spheres flow in and 
convert us more completely into the heavenly 
image.— Gt. Har. Vol. 3, p. 216. 



188 STAENOS. 

ULTIMATES. 

Every material and spiritual element is 
being constantly ultimated into immortalized 
spiritual principles. — Gt. Har. Yol. 2, p. 333. 

UNCHARITABLENESS. 

Let kindness pervade your whole nature ; 
but uncharitableness should never invade the 
inward sanctuary. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 434. 

UNFOLDMENT. 

Let thy wisdom be unfolded, and from its 
depths will spring the holy and beautiful 
truths of intuition, — the light of the inner 
world.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 70. 

UNIVERSES. 

The universe is the harp of all the imper- 
sonal principles ; the silver-tongued trumpet 
for the use of all the gods ; the perfect-toned 
organ played by the Eternal Master of all 
grand music. — Heavenly Home, p. 108. 



STARNOS. 189 

USES. 
There is nothing existing without embody- 
ing divine ideas and subserving eternal uses. — 
Penetralia, p. 115. 

ULTIMATES. 
Man, the ultimate of stupendous creations, 
and the germ of celestial seraphs. . . . He 
stands as Nature's masterpiece. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 1, p. 213. 

UNFOLDINGS. 

Nothing is useless ; for that which appears 
gross and imperfect is in reality the only sub- 
stantial source of subsequent unfoldings. — 
Nat. Div. Rev., p. 324. 

UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. 

All evil will be subdued and banished by 
the ultimate triumph of those principles that 
are good, divine, and unchangeable, and un- 
righteousness shall be no more. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 2, p. 43. 



190 STARNOS. 

ULTIMATES. 

The Great Positive Mind, as a Cause, de- 
velops Nature as an Effect, to produce the 
human Spirit as an ultimate. — Gt. Har. 
Vol. 2, p. 304. 

USE. 

Use is the central and foundation attribute 
of Wisdom. . . . Use enables the mind to place 
a true estimation on everything.— Gt. Har. 
Vol. 2, p. 147. 

ULTIMATES. 

The ultimate object of Nature is most be- 
neficently, affectionately, and wisely to bring 
forth that seedling called the human organi- 
zation. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 371. 

UNFOLDMENT. 

Human minds, like trees, grow large and 
beautiful ; or, like trees, sometimes remain 
small and deformed ; strictly in accordance 
with their origin and subsequent situation. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 54. 



STAKtfOS. 191 

UNITY. 

Truth is the immutable and eternal integ- 
rity of the Infinite Parents. He who lives 
and speaks in harmony with this integrity 
lives and speaks in unity with the unchange- 
able will and love of God. — Beyond the Val- 
ley, p. 255. 



V. 

VITALITY. 

Vitality is a part of the Divine Mind asso- 
ciated with, and specifically acting upon, organ- 
ized matter. — Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 46. 

VIRTUOUSNESS. 

The quicker we all abandon vices and 
practice virtues the more certain are we of 
obtaining that happiness and joy of mind 
which the world can neither give nor take 
away. — Har. Man, p. 147. 



192 STABNOS. 

VICTORY. 

There is a law of Justice which evermore 
overcomes evil with good. — Inner Life, p. 164. 

VIOLATIONS. 

The moral laws of the eternally just Father 
and Mother will hold unpardonably responsi- 
ble every person and every sect who violates 
the sovereign principles of harmony. — Tem- 
ple, p. 215. 

VITALITY. 

Nothing which manifests life and anima- 
tion is without functions ; and there is noth- 
ing which is not impregnated with the Eternal 
Spirit of all life and vitality. — Gt. liar. 
Vol. 2, p. 303. 

VIRTUE. 

Be natural, thoroughly honest, and full of 
integrity; then virtue's influence will always 
flow out from you, healing the spirits of those 
who are crushed by misfortune and sorrow. 
— Hist, and Phil, of Evil, p. 234. 



STARNOS. 193 

VIRTUOUSNESS. 

Really true and really virtuous people have 
the least to say about either their truthfulness 
or their integrity. — Temple, p. 443» 

VENERATION. 

Raise your thoughts to Him whose essence 
is love, and whose wisdom is universal justice, 
benevolence, and reciprocation. — Nat. Div. 
Rev., p. 707. 

VARIETY. 

Intrinsically and essentially there is no dif- 
ference between human beings. All visible 
inequality and variety arise from different 
combinations of the same powers and attri- 
butes. — Har. Man, p. 154. 

VISITANTS. 

The sweet, mournful tones of the aeolian 
harp, when breathed upon by the midnight 
wind, sound not more attractive and holy than 
do the whisperings of gentle visitants from 
other spheres. — Answers to Questions, p. 57. 



194 STAKNOS. 



w. 

WANDERING. 

He who searches Nature searches the gos- 
pel of God ; while he who wanders from the 
laws and harmonies of Nature wanders from 
the paths and joys of the Infinite. — Inner 
Life, p. 44. 

WISDOM. 

The true Savior ... is Wisdom, the em- 
bodiment and image of universal Harmony, 
and the ever-blooming flower of the Divine 
Mind.— Gt. Har. Vol. 1, p. 453. 

Wisdom, when worked out in universal 
society, will be the fullest realization of the 
" kingdom of heaven and its righteousness " 
ever prayed for or anticipated by Man. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 1, p. 454. 



stakstos. 195 

WISDOM. 

Wisdom is greater than knowledge. The 
former discerns interior truths ; the latter 
gathers external facts. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 417. 

The best preventive of superstition is Wis- 
dom. If jou would become acquainted with 
your only Savior, and have anxiety to fall 
affectionately and confidingly at his feet, go 
into the presence of Wisdom. The most 
radiant angel in the chamber of the soul is 
Wisdom. His glory gleams through the in- 
finite Palace of Truth. His young, unimpas- 
sioned bosom burns only with the immortal 
fires of love divine, and the voice of his words 
blends with the star-cadence of immensity, 
the bewildering music whereof surmounts the 
ever-upswelling crests of the eternal ocean of 
Principles, and fills the hushed and listening 
universe of intelligence with joy and hope and 
aspirations unutterable. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, 
p. 124. 



196 STARNOS. 



WOMAN. 



Woman will inevitably develop the world. 
— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 187. 

The female spirit is a beautiful combina- 
tion of immortal springs and affections. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 2, p. 186. 

Woman builds the foundation walls of 
society, . . . therefore she needs to be edu- 
cated in the peculiarities of her position. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 193. 

The harmonious proportions of humanity's 
future structure will depend entirely upon the 
education and elevation of the female master- 
builders.— Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 192. 

All the heroes, poets, artists, philosophers, 
and theologians that ever moved upon the 
earth were put in possession of their various 
maxims and attributes mainly by woman. — 
Gt. Har. Vol. 2, p. 187. 



STARNOS. 197 

WORTH. 

All spirit and matter, all objects of thought, 
all thinking things, are partakers of each 
other's worth and nature. — Inner Life, p. 145. 

WOMAN. 

Woman wields the Archimedian lever, 
whose fulcrum is childhood, whose length is 
all time, whose weight is the world, whose 
sweep is eternity. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 257. 

WEALTH. 

Human souls will accumulate spiritual sub- 
stance, obtain the real elements of mental 
nutrition, in strict harmony with their indi- 
vidual aspirations. Those who aspire to love 
will grow spiritually wealthy in love ; those 
who aspire after knowledge will grow rich in 
the memory of facts and things ; those who 
aspire unto Wisdom will increase in the per- 
ception and enjoyment of Principles and 
Generalizations. — Gt. Har. Vol. 4, p. 55. 



198 STAENOS. 

WAR. 

War is the production of the cellar-kitchen 
of human nationality and progress. It never 
comes from the upper chambers in the temple 
of human growth. — Phil, of Spir. Inter., 
p. 346. 

WHOLENESS. 

Nature is the Wholeness of all things and 
principles, the Alpha and Omega, the begin- 
ning and the end, the substantial and the 
centrestantial, matter and mind, God clothed 
and God unclothed, the boundless and inde- 
structible entireness. — Gt. Har. Vol. 5, p. 31. 

WEAKNESS. 

The man who needs a Church, or the 
woman who needs a Minister, or the bishop 
who needs a Bible, or the religionist whose 
feeble faith needs the bolster of a Miracle, is 
not born again. Such may have the form — 
the signs and symbols — but not the spirit of 
Truth. — Free Thoughts, p. 147. 



STARNOS. 199 

WONDERS. 

It is no more wonderful that a man lives 
after death than that he lives after his birth. 
— Diakka, p. 92. 

WISDOM. 

Wisdom is the heart's prime minister, — 
the flower of the inward consciousness. — Gt. 
Har. Vol. 3, p. 109. 

WEALTH. 

One day material wealth will not be fash- 
ionable ; but, instead, he will be most popular 
who is fraternal and harmonious. — Pene- 
tralia, p. 362. 

WORSHIP. 

True worship is an involuntary act of the 
inmost affections. . . . Worship of the Su- 
preme Spirit of the Universe is possible only 
to those who feel, and are, therefore, power- 
fully attracted toward the sacred essence of 
the Infinite Love. — Fountain, p. 162. 



2G0 STABNOS. 

WORSHIP. 

The truest family worship is daily effort to 
establish complete integral unity and happi- 
ness. — Answers to Questions, p. 114. 

WICKEDNESS. 

The innate divineness of the spirit of man 
prohibits the possibility of spiritual wicked- 
ness or unrighteousness. — Nat. Div. Rev., 
p. 413. 

WORDS. 

God's words are fleeting things to the soul ; 
to the spirit they impart the imperishable 
realities of eternal life. — Beyond the Valley, 
p. 388. 

WILL. 

If you would know the full happiness of the 
harmonial angels, let your will do only what 
is requested by your highest affections, and 
only what is approved by the reflections of 
your highest Reason. — Heavenly Home, p. 28. 



STABNOS. 201 

WISDOM. 

Our Redeemer is Wisdom, whose ways are 
pleasant; whose paths are peace ; whose heart 
is Mother nature ; whose bead is Father God ; 
who saves the whole world with an everlast- 
ing salvation. Truth, Love, Justice, Wisdom, 
— each an angel of life, light, and happiness. 
Let us strive to communicate with them ; let 
us listen reverently to no other voices ; let us 
obey no other authorities. — Fountain, p. 231. 



INDEX. 



203 



INDEX. 



A 

Affliction 16 

Atmospheres 11 , 18 

Art 20 

Aspiration 10, 17 

Authority 10, 18 

Attraction 12, 15, 17 

Association 11, 17 

Allegiance 14 

Antiquity 18 

Angels 12, 20 

Affection 15, 1G 

Arabula 9, 19 

Arbitration 19 

Applause 19 

Activities 18 

Ambition 17 

Aristocracies 13 

Argument 15 

Affinities 20 

Approbation 13 

Abuses 21 



Agents 14 

Armor 21 

Achievements 13 

Aims 21 

Abstinence 16 

Anger 15 

Advancement. . . , 14 

Annihilation 19 

Analysis 20 

B 

Body 26 

Beauty...., 22, 23, 24,25 

Brotherhood 25, 27 

Blessings 23, 24, 26 

Beatitudes 26 

Benefits 26 

Books 22,25 

Belief 27 

Birth 22 

Bondage 23 

Babyhood 28 

Bigotry 23 



204 



STAKNOS. 



C 

Causes 31,34 

Creation 28 

Conscience 29 

Constitution 31 

Cheerfulness 33, 34, 37 

Charity 29, 41, 44 

Culture 30 

Capabilities 29 

Contemplation 34, 35, 42 

Conditions 33 

Cultivation 29 

Consolation 31, 37, 41 

Commandments 32, 36 

Character, 28, 30, 33, 38, 39, 43 

Circumstances 30, 31, 34 

Correspondence 35 

Circulation 32 

Communion 32, 41 

Correctness 32 

Criticism 35 

Compensations 37 

Constellations 38 

Confession 40 

Conventions 39 

Counterparts 38 

Consciousness 39 

Communications 42 

Churches 36 

Compassion 40 

Courage 40 



Calmness 43 

Creeds 45 

Condemnation 44 

Cultivation 42 

Conversation 45 

Confidence 44, 45 

Cleanliness 38 

Convictions 43 

D 

Discipline 46 

Deity 46,48,50,58 

Destiny 46, 49, 51, 54, 56 

Discord 49,51 

Death 47,49,51,52 

Development, 47, 48, 50, 51, 55 

Divinity 47, 53 

Deification 49, 53 

Duality 48 

Doubts 55, 56, 57 

Devotion.. 58 

Discussion 50 

Diakka 54,55 

Deeds — , 57 

Design 52 

Doctrines 58 

Demons 50 

Details 57 

Differences 56 

Demonstration 56 

Dependence 53 



INDEX. 



205 



Duty 52 

Deliverance 55 

Desire 54 

E 

Epitaphs 67 

Emancipation 59 

Equilibrium 63 

Ethics 60 

Experiences 60, 61 , 65, 67 

Education 60,62 

Events 59 

Evil 63 

Equality 64,67 

Eternity 61, 68 

Error 59,61,62,63,64 

Enlightenment 60 

Exactness 62 

Expression 62, 65 

Errors 67,68 

Existence 64 

Endowments 64 

Enemies 63 

Externals 61 

Evidences 66,68 

Excesses 66 

Effects 66 

Energies 65 

F 

Fables 69 



Formation . . . , 74 

Friendship 73 

Facts 70 

Fidelity 69,71 

Fear 72,73 

Fountains 70 

Forms 72, 75 

Fulfillment 74 

Freedom 70, 72, 74 

Faith _ 75 

Firmness 72, 75 

Flowers 71, 73 

Forces 70, 74 

Faculties 71 

Faithfulness 75 

Fascination 73 

G 

Gospels 80 

Gratitude 77 

Germs =...81 

Greatness 81 

Godliness 81 

God 78,79,80 

Growth 76,79,80 

Genius 76 

Goodness 77, 78 

Grace 80 

Government 78, 80 

Guidance 79 

Gentleness 81 



206 



STAENOS. 



Generalizations 76 

Guardians . . 81 

H 

Hospitality 85 

Humility 85 

Health 83,84,90 

Harmony. . . .82, 84, 87, 88, 89 
Happiness, . ..82,83,85,80,87,88 

Habiliments 85 

Homes 84, 86 

Hope 82, 86, 87 

Heredity 88,90 

Heaven 89 

Humanity 89 

Hatred.-' 86 

Habits 84 

Hypocrisy 83 

I 

Illumination 91 , 93 

Intuition. . .92, 93, 96, 100, 105 

Invitations 99 

Imperfection 91 

Ideals 90,101, 102 

Inspiration 92, 94, 96 

Ignorance 95, 96, 98, 102 

Infinity 91,104 

Influences 92 

Individuality 92, 95 

Incarnation 97 



Ideas 91,97, 105 

Integrity 94, 99, 100, 101 

Immutability 98 

Immortality 94, 101 

Information 99 

Inheritance 98 

Injustice 102 

Insanity 103, 104 

Infidelity. 104 

Inquiry 100 

Immorality 98 

Impatience 95 

Impressions 103 

Infancy 96 

Innocence 103 

Investigation 103, 104 

Imperishableness 97 

J 

Justice 105, 106 

Jealousy 106 

K 

Knowledge 106, 107 

Kindness , 107 

Liberty 111,112,113 

Light 108, 110 

Law 108 

Lord 112 



INDEX. 



207 



Love 108, 109, 110, 111 

Labor 109,112 

Loyalty Ill 

Life 110,111 

Leniency 109 

M 

Myths 119 

Man 117,120 

Methods 118 

Mediation 117, 122 

Mission 113 

Mechanism 124 

Music 113, 114, 120, 123 

Mind 115,120,121,124 

Mourning 114, 119 

Motives 116, 123 

Marriage 115, 118, 121 

Matter 114 

Manners 118 

Merit 116 

Missionaries 118 

Mysteries 1 15 

Morality 123 

Martyrdom 116 

Mythology 121, 122 

Misfortunes . .* 119 

Martyrs 119 

Magic 120 

Murder 121 

Misery 123 



Manhood 122 

Meditator 124 

Memory 117 

Melody 122 

N 

Nourishment 127 

Nature 125,126 

Nobleness 125,127 

Nobility 125,126 

Now 126 

O 

Organization 129, 130 

Order 128 

Oppressions 128 

Opportunities 128 

Observation 130 

Obedience 129 

Opposition 130 

Opinions 129 

Omnipresence 130 

P 

Power 135, 136, 137, 142, 

143, 145. 

Popularity 136 

Perception , 144 

Predisposition 141 

Progress 145 

Physicians. . 139 



208 



STABNOS. 



Philosophy 137, 143 

Production 146 

Progression 134, 136, 144 

Prayer. .131, 132, 135, 137, 140 
Principles. . .133, 139, 142, 144 

Phenomena 134 

Piety : 145 

Prejudices 138, 139, 144 

Philosophers 133 

Perfectness 132, 137, 144 

Purposes 132, 139 

Purification 138 

Purity 131,141,145 

Punishments 140, 143 

Passions 138 

Personalities 140, 146 

Prophecies 142 

Perfection 140 

Playfulness .' 134 

Planets 143 

Peace 141,142 

Proofs 141 

Pursuits 146 

Qualities 147, 148 

Quantity 148 

Query 147 

Quarrels 147 

Quietude 147 

Quietness 148 



R 

Reason 148, 149, 152, 154, 

155, 156, 157. 

Refinement 150, 152 

Requirements 153 

Reform 151, 154, 156, 157 

Receptivity 152 

Realities 150 

Righteousness — 149 

Revelation 151 

Religion.. .151,153,154,155,156 

Revealment 149 

Reputation 159 

Resistance 153 

Regeneration 153 

Responsibility... 155, 156, 158 

Repentance 158 

Reformation 157 

Rituals 157 

Realization 158 

Retardation 150 

S 

Splendors 163, 170 

Spirit. ..160, 162, 163, 167, 169 

Silence 168 

Spiritualizatitfn.,164, 166, 173 

Standard 160, 161 

Soul 160 

Sleep 164 

Sublimity 165, 170 



INDEX. 



209 



Sabbath 176 

Sympathy 166, 174 

Sources 165 

Sufferings 170 

Strength 163 

Supremacy 162 

Scriptures 174 

Science 167 

Sight 169 

Spiritualism 171 

Somnambulism 176 

Salvation 162 

Societies 173, 175 

Society 174 

Selfishness 169, 170, 174 

Spheres 161, 176 

Sepulchres 160 

Strength 168 

Sequences 161 

Speech 159 

Sorrows 164 

Sincerity 167 

Shepherds 172 

Subjectivity 165 

Sin 166,168 

Sectarianism 167 

Sunday 168 

Strife 175 

Superstition 169, 175 

Supernaturalism 176 

Sinners 171 



Scenes 172 

Spontaneity 171 

Skepticism 173 

Secrets 173 

T 

Truth.. .177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 

182, 183, 184. 

Tones 184 

Thoughts . . .178, 179, 180, 181, 

182, 183. 

Tranquility 177, 178 

Temperance 179, 180, 181 

Temptation 184, 186 

Thinkers 180,184 

Truthfulness 186 

Time 182, 185 

Theologians ...» 185 

Testimony 183 

Temple 185 

Tomorrow 182 

Types 183 

Tides 181 

U 

Use 187,189,190 

Unrighteousness 189 

Unity 186,191 

Unfoldings 189 

Ultimates 188, 189, 190 

Universes 188 



210 



STARNOS. 



Unselfishness 187 

Unf oldment 187, 188, 190 

Uncharitableness 188 

V 

Vitality 191,192 

Virtue 192 

Virtuousness . . 191, 193 

Violations 192 

Visitants 193 

Veneration 193 

Variety 193 

Victory 192 



W 

Wisdom 194, 195, 199, 201 

Woman 196, 197 

Wealth 197,199 

Worth 197 

Will 200 

Wandering 194 

Worship 199, 200 

Wonders 199 

Weakness 198 

Words 200 

War 198 

Wholeness 198 

Wickedness 200 



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